Sitka City and Borough, Alaska

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 1.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 831 workers (25.8% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $82,797.
• Wage stratification: Construction averages $104,536 while Educational Services averages $37,179, a 2.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation concentrates at 219.81x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 8 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 6 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 4.4x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Elevated vacancy: 17.3% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Affordable rent tiers: 4 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$2,543/mo).

• Succession risk is real: 22.7% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Strong participation: 93.2% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 0-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 6 local institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 4,409 annual credentials.

Sitka City and Borough shows strong potential for scenic and sightseeing transportation attraction, with a 219.81x concentration and 194 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.7% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across scenic and sightseeing transportation, food 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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