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Lavaca

United States · GDP 2024
#1503 of 3,127 US counties by GDPbottom-quartile growthmore diversified than 61% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$1.5B
GDP growth
-0.5%
Jobs tracked
5,202
Employers
489
Avg. wage
$47.8k
Population
20,651
Labor & formation
Unemployment
3.5%
Median HH income
$63.2k±$5.2k
Business applications
216 · 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 care28%
Manufacturing27%
Retail trade19%
Other services8%
Construction8%
Wholesale trade8%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
20,651
residents · 2025 · +1.5% since 2020
Income per capita $72.7k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+483
International migration+41
Natural change−210

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$1.2B
2019
$957.0M
2020
$1.2B
2021
$1.7B
2022
$1.5B
2023
$1.5B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$228.3k±$14.1k
Median gross rent
$910/mo±$57/mo
Vacancy rate
19.4%±2.5%
Affordability
4.8× wages
Residential permits
7 (0.3/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
78.9
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.1k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Cold wave 88Hurricane 85Lightning 75
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
176
2016
181
2017
197
2018
209
2019
209
2020
233
2021
260
2022
300
2023
307
2024
332
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$47.8k
avg. annual pay · +13% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Macoupin$1.5BDawson$1.5BNeshoba$1.5BJasper$1.5BDickinson$1.5BTaos$1.5B
The read

Lavaca's economy produced $1.5B in 2024, contracting 0.5% year over year — slower than 81% of 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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