The center of the US economy is in rural Missouri

[ocman]

The center of the US economy is in rural Missouri
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-county-gdp/

Kansas in 20 years? It's behind a article view limit. If you haven't reached it, the maps are pretty interesting. Maybe someone could host them in their posts.

America’s economic center has been moving west over the past two decades, according to county-level GDP data released Thursday for the first time by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Over that period, the geographic midpoint of the country’s gross domestic product moved from just outside the small town of Steelville, Missouri (population 1,642) to the outskirts of Hazelgreen, Missouri (population unknown) about 75 miles away. That’s calculated by finding the location in the U.S. where economic output produced in any direction around it is roughly the same.

Some of this slow but unmistakable shift can be attributed to a population that’s growing faster in many western states. But it’s also due to the changing makeup and distribution of the American economy.

The highest-growth areas in the West are in parts of Southern California (Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange counties), the San Francisco Bay area (Santa Clara) and King County, home to Seattle. Collectively, those five counties added more than $1 trillion in GDP over 17 years. GDP grew the most on the East Coast in Manhattan, Middlesex County outside Boston, Miami-Dade County, Atlanta’s Fulton County and the District of Columbia—adding $662 billion.

Los Angeles County in California experienced the most nominal GDP growth since 2001, and was first for growth in the construction and arts, entertainment and recreation industries. Houston’s Harris County saw the most growth in manufacturing—while manufacturing hubs in parts of North Carolina and Virginia experienced some of the biggest losses.

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by ocman

The center of the US economy is in rural Missouri
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-county-gdp/

Kansas in 20 years? It's behind a article view limit. If you haven't reached it, the maps are pretty interesting. Maybe someone could host them in their posts.

The Center of population (and Ecinomic growth) has been moving and south and west since the country began and since all of the highest growth areas are still the west I would suspect it will keep going.

I think it will still be in MO for 2020, Not sure if it will hit Arkansas or Kansas first hell it might even end up in Oklahoma

[James Bond Agent 007]

That's not far from the center of US population, which currently is in Wright County, MO.

[James Bond Agent 007]

BTW, looking at the maps at the link, the Ozarks should come up with a new motto for themselves: "The Ozarks: The center of just about everything."

[badrunner]

Headline should read: The GDP-weighted geographic midpoint of the US economy is in rural Missouri

[TexasPlaya]

Originally Posted by Obadno

The Center of population (and Ecinomic growth) has been moving and south and west since the country began and since all of the highest growth areas are still the west I would suspect it will keep going.

I think it will still be in MO for 2020, Not sure if it will hit Arkansas or Kansas first hell it might even end up in Oklahoma

Yep. The history of the US is constant shifting. I feel for Old America, it’s hard being in first class for so long then having to move to coach.

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by TexasPlaya

Yep. The history of the US is constant shifting. I feel for Old America, it’s hard being in first class for so long then having to move to coach.

... What? The United States is now and for the foreseeable future the absolute dominant power on Earth.

[TexasPlaya]

Originally Posted by Obadno

... What? The United States is now and for the foreseeable future the absolute dominant power on Earth.

I'm agreeing with you that the US economy is moving west and south (new america) while adding it left a lot of folks behind (old america).

I believe our current political environment/situation has a lot to do with where a chunk of the growth is happening and isn't happening. You could apply the same thing globally in my opinion.

[Centropolis]

of course its entirely possible that eventually the epicenter of “new america” will shift to the northern intermountain west leaving a flooding, hot, diseased mid/late twenty-first century texas in the garbage can in an even more unstable, weak-infrastructured condition than the midwest.

[TexasPlaya]

Originally Posted by Centropolis

of course its entirely possible that eventually the epicenter of “new america” will shift to the northern intermountain west leaving a flooding, hot, diseased mid/late twenty-first century texas in the garbage can in an even more unstable, weak-infrastructured condition than the midwest.

.. in the event of cataclysmic climate change, that Midwestern infrastructure won't be too rusty will it? Too soon?

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by Centropolis

of course its entirely possible that eventually the epicenter of “new america” will shift to the northern intermountain west leaving a flooding, hot, diseased mid/late twenty-first century texas in the garbage can in an even more unstable, weak-infrastructured condition than the midwest.

No serious predictions about climate change are that severe dont get caught up in the hype.

[Centropolis]

calm down