Tortoise beats hare: Omaha’s county, for one year, surges to fastest growing economy in US
Jeremy Turley, Flatwater Free Press wrote:By one measure, the fastest-growing economy among the nation’s largest counties isn’t in Texas, Florida or any of the other usual big dogs.
It’s Douglas County, Nebraska.
In 2022, as the nation emerged from a pandemic, Douglas County’s gross domestic product grew 9.2% – the most of any county with at least 500,000 residents, according to a recent report by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The county, home of Omaha, had never previously placed in the top 50 since the agency began recording the metric in 2018.
Omaha-Council Bluffs’ 6.3% gain in economic output ranked second nationally among major metro areas, trailing only Austin.
