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Blair

United States · GDP 2024
#525 of 3,127 US counties by GDP48th-percentile growthmore diversified than 70% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$8.0B
GDP growth
+4.2%
Jobs tracked
53,149
Employers
3,178
Avg. wage
$51.3k
Population
119,541
Labor & formation
Unemployment
3.6%
Median HH income
$62.4k±$1.7k
Business applications
983 · 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
Health care33%
Retail trade21%
Manufacturing16%
Food & accommodation13%
Transportation9%
Wholesale trade7%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
119,541
residents · 2025 · -2.5% since 2020
Income per capita $60.2k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−494
International migration+382
Natural change−3,064

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$6.3B
2019
$6.3B
2020
$6.8B
2021
$7.2B
2022
$7.7B
2023
$8.0B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$161.1k±$3.1k
Median gross rent
$885/mo±$33/mo
Vacancy rate
9.6%±1.0%
Affordability
3.1× wages
Residential permits
86 (0.7/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
77.7
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.1k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Winter weather 93Landslide 86Hurricane 79
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
261
2016
270
2017
272
2018
282
2019
286
2020
306
2021
339
2022
362
2023
361
2024
388
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
3.2 km
I-99
Nearest freight rail
4.2 km
NS
Nearest port
104.8 km
ASBURY GRAPHITE MILLS, APPLEWOLD DOCK
Nearest commercial airport
20.6 km
ALTOONA/BLAIR COUNTY
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$51.3k
avg. annual pay · +19% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Strafford$8.0BBeaver$8.0BTompkins$8.0BHouston$8.0BBrunswick$8.1BNorth Slope Borough$8.1B
The read

Blair's economy produced $8.0B in 2024, growing 4.2% year over year — about the middle of the pack among US counties. Its largest employment sector is health care.

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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