St. Louis County contributes 20% to Mo. economic share
From the St. Louis Business Journal 10/29/07St. Louis County was the largest individual county contributor to the state's economy in 2006 accounting for more than 20 percent of the state's total economic share, according to data supplied by the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center.
St. Louis County's economic share in 2006 was 20.2 percent, almost double that of the next closest county Jackson County, which contains Kansas City, with an 11.6 percent share. St Charles County ranked No. 3 with 6.1 percent and St. Louis City ranked No. 4 with a 5.4 percent economic share. Worth County, bordering Iowa in northwest Missouri, produced the lowest economic contribution to the state at 0.03 percent.
Economic share measures the percentage of the state's economy that is accounted for by an individual county. The economic share is measured as the average of the percentage of the state's employment, population, and personal income that occurs in a particular county.
However, St. Louis County, St. Louis City and Jackson County were the three counties whose economic share had decreased the most since 1996. St. Louis County dropped 1.8 percent since 1996, while Jackson County, 0.9 percent, and St. Louis City, 0.8 percent. They also had the state's most significant drops. St. Charles County had the state's highest increase in economic share, contributing 1.1 percent more in 2006 than it did in 1996.
