US Counties With the Lowest Gross Domestic Product
3,089 US counties ranked by gross domestic product, from lowest to highest. First are Carroll County, MS (13,738), Echols County, GA (13,853) and Glascock County, GA (14,046). The middle one of the 3,089 has 54,526.
What this measures
Gross domestic product: the value of everything produced in the area, in dollars of that year (not adjusted for inflation). Source: BEA Regional Accounts.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | 51,334 |
| 2 | West Virginia | 56,869 |
| 3 | Arkansas | 58,731 |
| 4 | Alabama | 61,244 |
| 5 | Kentucky | 62,799 |
| 6 | Idaho | 63,693 |
| 7 | South Carolina | 63,872 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | 64,058 |
| 9 | New Mexico | 65,506 |
| 10 | Michigan | 67,256 |
| 11 | Montana | 67,588 |
| 12 | Maine | 68,059 |
| 13 | Vermont | 68,085 |
| 14 | Louisiana | 68,825 |
| 15 | Missouri | 69,533 |
| 16 | Rhode Island | 69,670 |
| 17 | Arizona | 72,934 |
| 18 | Indiana | 72,940 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 73,304 |
| 20 | Florida | 74,085 |
| 21 | Oregon | 74,291 |
| 22 | Pennsylvania | 74,419 |
| 23 | Ohio | 75,039 |
| 24 | North Carolina | 75,096 |
| 25 | Tennessee | 76,044 |
| 26 | Kansas | 76,543 |
| 27 | Georgia | 77,224 |
| 28 | Hawaii | 77,294 |
| 29 | Iowa | 79,216 |
| 30 | Nevada | 80,688 |
| 31 | New Hampshire | 82,452 |
| 32 | South Dakota | 82,806 |
| 33 | Maryland | 83,465 |
| 34 | Virginia | 83,485 |
| 35 | Minnesota | 84,572 |
| 36 | Utah | 85,024 |
| 37 | Illinois | 86,727 |
| 38 | New Jersey | 87,071 |
| 39 | Wyoming | 88,571 |
| 40 | Texas | 88,973 |
| 41 | Colorado | 91,773 |
| 42 | Alaska | 92,964 |
| 43 | Nebraska | 93,482 |
| 44 | Connecticut | 95,002 |
| 45 | California | 97,521 |
| 46 | North Dakota | 99,951 |
| 47 | Delaware | 102,727 |
| 48 | Washington | 103,535 |
| 49 | Massachusetts | 105,525 |
| 50 | New York | 109,826 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 259,270 |
More on gross domestic product
- US Counties With the Highest Gross Domestic Product
- Gross domestic product by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.