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County profile

Essex

United States · GDP 2024
#2331 of 3,127 US counties by GDP68th-percentile growthmore diversified than 38% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$560.4M
GDP growth
+6.0%
Jobs tracked
3,180
Employers
309
Avg. wage
$44.0k
Population
10,654
Labor & formation
Unemployment
4.0%
Median HH income
$56.5k±$7.5k
Business applications
143 · 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
Retail trade32%
Health care23%
Food & accommodation18%
Manufacturing15%
Other services6%
Admin & support5%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
10,654
residents · 2025 · +0.5% since 2020
Income per capita $58.9k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration+326
International migration+21
Natural change−295

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$387.7M
2019
$384.2M
2020
$409.2M
2021
$432.0M
2022
$528.7M
2023
$560.4M
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$238.1k±$20.1k
Median gross rent
$972/mo±$67/mo
Vacancy rate
23.5%±3.6%
Affordability
5.4× wages
Residential permits
62 (5.8/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
18.6
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.1k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Drought 94Hurricane 80Coastal flooding 56
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
153
2016
159
2017
163
2018
168
2019
178
2020
194
2021
222
2022
243
2023
254
2024
257
2025
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$44.0k
avg. annual pay · +26% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Wayne$560.2MPower$560.7MCalhoun$559.9MFillmore$559.5MLawrence$559.4MHolmes$562.1M
The read

Essex's economy produced $560.4M in 2024, growing 6.0% year over year — faster than most US counties. Its largest employment sector is retail trade.

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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