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| Greater Philadelphia Population and Economic Data |
Greater Philadelphia has:
- Total population of 6.23 million people.
- Per capita personal income of $47,600; personal income per household of $130,590.
- Total employment of 2.87 million jobs.
- Total number of jobs in 2010 of 2.887 million.
- Total Labor force of 3.14 million persons; average unemployment rate of 8.6%.
- Gross metro product of $370.96 billion; 7th largest among US metro areas.
Total Retail sales of $88.5 billion.
A large business to business market with payroll had $681.1 trillion in sales.
12 companies on the Fortune 500 list with their headquarters (HQs) in the region; 34 on the Fortune 1000 list have their HQs here.
Sources: Bureau of Census, 2010. Fortune 2011. IHS Global Insight, 2010. Philadelphia Fed, June 2011.
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William R. Sasso
Chairman, Stradley Ronon
"If you considered the 200-mile radius around
Greater Philadelphia as one catchment area,
it would be at the heart of the 5th-largest
economy in the world."
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