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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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