{"id":825915,"date":"2026-08-26T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825915\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:30:10","slug":"2026-iowa-state-fair-nearly-200-million-contributed-to-gdp-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825915\/","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>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014<\/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":2,"featured_media":825916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[40609,28,349914,101,28137,24897,349916,22389,473,242147,108859,349915,2853,89747,567,2394],"class_list":["post-825915","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-visit","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}