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County profile

Bedford

United States · GDP 2024
#1261 of 3,127 US counties by GDP59th-percentile growthmore diversified than 64% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$2.0B
GDP growth
+5.1%
Jobs tracked
13,015
Employers
1,080
Avg. wage
$46.5k
Population
47,480
Labor & formation
Unemployment
3.5%
Median HH income
$60.0k±$3.3k
Business applications
366 · 2025

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
Manufacturing23%
Retail trade21%
Transportation20%
Health care17%
Food & accommodation14%
Other services7%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
47,480
residents · 2025 · -0.2% since 2020
Income per capita $53.9k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+629
International migration+144
Natural change−848

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$1.6B
2019
$1.5B
2020
$1.7B
2021
$1.8B
2022
$1.9B
2023
$2.0B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$179.0k±$9.2k
Median gross rent
$784/mo±$33/mo
Vacancy rate
16.2%±1.3%
Affordability
3.9× wages
Residential permits
75 (1.6/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
68.2
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$973/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Landslide 92Hurricane 78Avalanche 58
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
195
2016
197
2017
207
2018
215
2019
218
2020
236
2021
266
2022
265
2023
300
2024
308
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$46.5k
avg. annual pay · +24% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Accomack$2.0BMorgan$2.0BClark$2.0BFayette$2.0BNatchitoches$2.0BNewberry$2.0B
The read

Bedford's economy produced $2.0B in 2024, growing 5.1% year over year — about the middle of the pack among 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.
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