Mobile County, Alabama

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Elevated poverty: At 16.2%, the rate is in distressed-county territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 9.7 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 24,762 workers (18.8% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $62,362.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $30.1B (2024) with per-capita income of $53,901.
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $89,396 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $22,954, a 3.9x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Primary Metal Manufacturing concentrates at 5.02x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.2x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Elevated vacancy: 13.1% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.

• Strong participation: 78.1% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 6 local institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 24,536 annual credentials.

Mobile County shows strong potential for primary metal manufacturing attraction, with a 5.02x concentration and 2,092 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across primary metal manufacturing, transportation equipment manufacturing, and support activities for transportation creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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