In the realm of highest incoming investments, Bryan County has ranked second in the state of Georgia, according to a recent study commissioned by financial tech company SmartAsset.

The study identifies the counties in the U.S. that are receiving the most ‘incoming investment’, a phenomenon measured by three metrics: number of new businesses established over a three-year period, GDP growth (adjusted for inflation), and investment and development in the local real estate market, which was calculated by the number of new building permits per 1,000 homes.

Every U.S. county in the study was evaluated using the above factors and then ranked and given an ‘Incoming Investment’ invest score from 0 to 100, with 0 representing the least investment activity and 100 representing the most investment activity. 

Bryan County’s ‘Incoming Investment Index’ score is 47.46, placing the county second in the state of Georgia (behind Jackson County, GA at 58.74) and 13th nationwide.  

This high investment index score is partly to do with the county’s high number of new building permits (per 1,000 homes), which sits at 55.21 permits–well above the state average of 10.84. 

Information for SmartAsset’s study was retrieved from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey.