2012 Metro GDPs Out - How Did Jax Fare?

[simms3]

Below is a table I put together.  Jacksonville is the 41st largest metro area on my list.  It was the 35th fastest growing economy between 2011 and 2012.  It has the 47th largest economy and the 52nd highest GDP per capita.

For my own subjectivity, I combined:

NYC metro with Bridgeport-Stamford
Los Angeles metro with Riverside/San Bernardino and Oxnard/Ventura
San Francisco with San Jose
Cleveland with Akron
Salt Lake City with Ogden
Raleigh with Durham
Greensboro-High Point with Winston Salem
Greenville with Spartanburg




Data found here:

http://bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/2013/gdp_metro0913.htm

[thelakelander]

So we have a higher Per Capita than Tampa, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and Greenville-Spartanburg. Interesting set of statistics.

[ChriswUfGator]

We seem to compare alright to our Florida peers. What really surprises on this list is that most of this state seems to be woefully behind the entire rust belt and several notoriously-depressed regional economies. I know that we've never really had much of a manufacturing base to speak of in Florida, unless you count citrus, but I am still surprised that Akron Ohio, Detroit, Pittsburgh, De Moines, etc., would have higher per capita GDP. I can understand Orlando, a predominately tourist-based economy that got hit in the recession, but it doesn't speak well for Jacksonville and Tampa.

[tufsu1]

Below is a table I put together.  Jacksonville is the 41st largest metro area on my list.  It was the 35th fastest growing economy between 2011 and 2012. 

and the new data for 2012-2013 was released a few weeks back....and it says Jax is now the 16th fastest growing economy