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Old 01-18-2014, 08:57 PM
 
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This, according to the Wall Street Journal. The following is a list of all 67 counties in Pennsylvania, ranked by their 2010 population, and color-coded to denote whether they have fully recovered their GDP or not, or if they even entered the recession at all:


Pennsylvania counties
1,526,006 - Philadelphia County
1,223,348 - Allegheny County
799,874 - Montgomery County

625,249 - Bucks County
558,979 - Delaware County
519,445 - Lancaster County
498,886 - Chester County
434,972 - York County
411,442 - Berks County
365,169 - Westmoreland County
349,497 - Lehigh County
320,918 - Luzerne County
297,735 - Northampton County
280,566 - Erie County
268,100 - Dauphin County
235,406 - Cumberland County

214,437 - Lackawanna County
207,820 - Washington County
183,862 - Butler County
170,539 - Beaver County
169,842 - Monroe County

153,990 - Centre County
149,618 - Franklin County
148,289 - Schuylkill County

143,679 - Cambria County
136,606 - Fayette County
133,568 - Lebanon County
127,089 - Blair County
116,638 - Mercer County
116,111 - Lycoming County

101,407 - Adams County
94,528 - Northumberland County
91,108 - Lawrence County

88,880 - Indiana County
88,765 - Crawford County
81,642 - Clearfield County
77,742 - Somerset County
68,941 - Armstrong County

67,295 - Columbia County
65,249 - Carbon County
62,622 - Bradford County

57,369 - Pike County
54,984 - Venango County
52,822 - Wayne County

49,762 - Bedford County
46,682 - Mifflin County

45,969 - Perry County
45,913 - Huntingdon County
45,200 - Jefferson County

44,947 - Union County
43,450 - McKean County
43,356 - Susquehanna County
41,981 - Tioga County

41,815 - Warren County
39,988 - Clarion County
39,702 - Snyder County

39,238 - Clinton County
38,686 - Greene County
31,946 - Elk County
28,276 - Wyoming County
24,636 - Juniata County
18,267 - Montour County
17,457 - Potter County
14,845 - Fulton County
7,716 - Forest County

6,428 - Sullivan County
5,085 - Cameron County

(Counties that have recovered their GDP are shaded in GREEN. Counties that have not recovered their GDP are shaded in RED. Counties that never lost GDP are shaded in BLUE.)

And here's a handy map:




As you can see, 16 of the 18 Pennsylvania counties with 200,000+ population have recovered their GDP. While it's true that a lot of populous counties across the United States have recovered by now, it's not true in all places. In Florida, only three of the 23 counties with 200,000+ population have recovered, and in Ohio, only three of the 13 counties with 200,000+ population have.
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Old 01-20-2014, 05:49 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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How was Philadelphia County never in the recession? Didn't it have an unemployment rate of 12% at its worst in early 2010?
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Old 01-20-2014, 07:10 PM
 
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How was Philadelphia County never in the recession? Didn't it have an unemployment rate of 12% at its worst in early 2010?
This is measured by GDP growth, so apparently Philadelphia never lost GDP despite the unemployment rate.
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Old 01-20-2014, 08:59 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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This is measured by GDP growth, so apparently Philadelphia never lost GDP despite the unemployment rate.
Good to see with the exception of NW PA, most of the state is back or better though.
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Old 01-20-2014, 09:36 PM
 
Location: The Flagship City and Vacation in the Paris of Appalachia
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Good to see with the exception of NW PA, most of the state is back or better though.
Huh? NWPA is almost all green according to the map?
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Old 01-22-2014, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Huh? NWPA is almost all green according to the map?
All of that red besides the counties that border with Ohio.
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Old 01-22-2014, 07:58 AM
 
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All of that red besides the counties that border with Ohio.
Most of those counties don't consider themselves part of NW PA... but North-Central PA... which is distinct from the Erie region.
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Old 01-22-2014, 08:23 AM
 
Location: The Flagship City and Vacation in the Paris of Appalachia
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All of that red besides the counties that border with Ohio.
This is the map I would probably go with for NWPA, but I would leave out Butler county because it is basically a suburban Southwest PA county.

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Old 01-22-2014, 08:33 AM
 
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Erie county = green
Crawford county = green
Mercer county = green
Lawrence county = red
Butler county = blue
Venango county = red
Warren county = red
Forest county = red
Clarion county = red
McKean, Elk, Potter, Cameron, Jefferson, Clearfield counties = red


I think overall Northwest PA is starting to recover and it appears the areas that are still unrecovered are the more rural and lesser populated areas.
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Old 01-23-2014, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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This is the map I would probably go with for NWPA, but I would leave out Butler county because it is basically a suburban Southwest PA county.
I've tended to considered anything north of I-80 and the counties including and west of McKean, Elk, etc as NWPA.
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