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DeKalb

United States · GDP 2024
#1946 of 3,127 US counties by GDPbottom-quartile growthmore diversified than 9% of counties
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GDP 2024 (USD)
$882.9M
GDP growth
+0.8%
Jobs tracked
4,323
Employers
339
Avg. wage
$49.6k
Population
21,873
Labor & formation
Unemployment
3.7%
Median HH income
$53.2k±$7.6k
Business applications
238 · 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
Manufacturing50%
Retail trade16%
Health care12%
Food & accommodation11%
Other services7%
Wholesale trade4%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
21,873
residents · 2025 · +8.4% since 2020
Income per capita $51.1k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+1,743
International migration+157
Natural change−248

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$671.3M
2019
$702.8M
2020
$796.2M
2021
$869.1M
2022
$876.3M
2023
$882.9M
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$235.5k±$16.8k
Median gross rent
$839/mo±$151/mo
Vacancy rate
14.8%±2.4%
Affordability
4.7× wages
Residential permits
144 (6.6/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
25.5
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$953/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Earthquake 69Winter weather 59Landslide 57
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
167
2016
182
2017
205
2018
215
2019
227
2020
264
2021
332
2022
348
2023
379
2024
391
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$49.6k
avg. annual pay · +27% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Ramsey$883.0MNicholas$883.2MCass$883.5MCuster$882.3MTorrance$881.3MMadison$884.8M
The read

DeKalb's economy produced $882.9M in 2024, growing 0.8% year over year — slower than 77% 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.
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