Places/OH/Knox County, OH
County profile

Knox County, OH

United States · GDP 2024
#959 of 3,127 US counties by GDP38th-percentile growthmore diversified than 59% of counties
EA Place Score
methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$3.1B
BEA · 2024
GDP growth (YoY)
+3.3%
BEA · 2024
Jobs tracked
17,629
Census CBP · 2023
Employers
1,121
Census CBP · 2023
Avg. wage
$54.6k
BLS QCEW · 2023
Population
64,002
Census PEP · 2025
Labor, income & education
Unemployment
3.5%
Median HH income
$73.9k±$3.3k
Bachelor's degree+
24.7%±1.7%
Poverty rate
11.6%±1.8%
Business applications
626 · 2025
Retail establishments
156
24.5/10k pop

Public companies headquartered here

SEC EDGAR · FMP
CompanySectorRevenueEA

No public companies loaded for this state yet — universe expands with the full ingest.

HQ-based placement with total (global) headcount — local employment attribution needs firmographic data; the industry mix at right is measured county data (CBP).

Industry mix · employment
Manufacturing28%
Health care22%
Retail trade16%
Education15%
Food & accommodation12%
Construction7%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 20202025
64,002
residents · 2025 · +1.9% since 2020
Income per capita $58.3k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 20212025
Domestic migration+1,096
International migration+282
Natural change208

GDP trend

20192024 · nominal
$2.2B
2019
$2.2B
2020
$2.4B
2021
$2.7B
2022
$3.0B
2023
$3.1B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$239.4k±$7.6k
Median gross rent
$950/mo±$42/mo
Vacancy rate
9.9%±1.6%
Affordability
4.4× wages
Residential permits
$66.6M
270 units · 4.2/1k pop
FEMA risk score
61.0
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.1k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Hail 85Strong wind 82Ice storm 79
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 20162025
432
2016
452
2017
470
2018
497
2019
521
2020
587
2021
671
2022
766
2023
802
2024
839
2025
RESIDENTIAL PERMITS · 20212025
-23% since 2021
351
2021
262
2022
376
2023
194
2024
270
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
25.1 km
I-71
Nearest freight rail
2.2 km
Freight rail
Nearest port
111.5 km
CARMEUSE - HURON
Nearest commercial airport
47.6 km
MANSFIELD LAHM RGNL
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 20192023
$54.6k
avg. annual pay · +22% since 2019
The read

What is the GDP of Knox?

Knox's economy produced $3.1B in 2024, growing 3.3% year over yearslower than 62% of US counties. Its largest employment sector is manufacturing.

GDP: BEA (2024), USD-normalized · Jobs/employers/wages & industry mix: Census CBP (2023) · Population & migration: Census PEP · Income: BEA CAINC1 · Companies: SEC EDGAR + FMP, by HQ.