Business Climate
Drum Country is one of the fastest growing areas of New York State. Home to Fort Drum, the region’s largest employer, Drum Country also boasts an educated, ready workforce with higher-than-average education levels. We’re also home to a higher-than-average number of young adults—a low cost, educated workforce. Fort Drum is woven into the fabric of the Drum Country Region. The installation provides employment for more than 4,700 area resident and generates $1.5 billion in annual economic impact. Soldiers, spouses and their children stationed at Fort Drum, the majority of whom live in the communities surrounding Fort Drum, are a driving force to continued economic growth and development in the region.
Combine our strong workforce and the economic engine of Fort Drum with our communities, competitive cost of living, and host of manufacturing and support industries, and you’ll see why Drum Country is your choice for business expansion or relocation.
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Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
Companies will find that the reliability, capacity and costs of Drum Country’s utilities infrastructure, as well as Fort Drum’s steady infusion of talent into the area economy, create a total package that makes the cost of doing business here as stunning as any view of the Adirondacks.
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