ACM Charts

With Silicon Valley and Hollywood in the deck, you’d hope California’s GDP would be more fun.  But then you look and the largest industry is Real Estate and Renting and Leasing, i.e. paying to occupy existing structures.  …  I guess we have a very loose definition of economic output.
(You can switch Label and Color to get the second graph, but it’s nice to have them both going at once.)
For a refresher on economic sectors, check out the posts from 00019 – NAICS.

[Data via Bureau of Economic Analysis, Graphs made via Many Eyes]

In California, the real money is in the country…

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[Population data via U.S. Census Bureau: State Pop, Metro Pop] [GDP data via Bureau of Economic Analysis: State GDP, Metro GDP]

[Data via Bureau of Economic Analysis: State GDP, Metro GDP]

[Data via U.S. Census Bureau: State Pop, Metro Pop]