{"id":1024137,"date":"2026-08-25T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1024137\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:59:19","slug":"2026-iowa-state-fair-nearly-200-million-contributed-to-gdp-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1024137\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Iowa State Fair: Nearly $200 million contributed to GDP, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New report highlights record-breaking economic impact of 2026 Iowa State Fair<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The 2026 Iowa State Fair made history for its impact on the state&#8217;s economy, according to a new report. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the Common Sense Institute, this year&#8217;s edition had the largest economic impact of any in the fair&#8217;s 172-year history.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The report shows the fair contributed $199 million to Iowa&#8217;s gross domestic product. It also contributed $104 million to personal income growth. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The report also estimated fairgoers spent a total of $95.8 million dollars at the fair in 2026. That&#8217;s just over an 8.2% increase from last year and an average of $235 per visit for an average family of three, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New report highlights record-breaking economic impact of 2026 Iowa State Fair DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 The 2026 Iowa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1024138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[71622,64,409762,79,22882,31699,409764,31648,472,360403,41145,409763,1630,8034,67,132,68,1804,1628],"class_list":["post-1024137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-average","tag-business","tag-common-sense-institute","tag-economy","tag-edition","tag-fair","tag-fairgoer","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-history","tag-iowa-state-fair","tag-kcci","tag-record-breaking-economic-impact","tag-report","tag-total","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-visit","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117158868946607824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}