Summit County, Colorado

• 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 -19.3 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Accommodation and Food Services employs 7,445 workers (39.8% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $42,309.
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $115,443 while Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation averages $35,742, a 3.2x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Accommodation concentrates at 13.06x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 8 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 8.6x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 72.1% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 61.1% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$2,744/mo).

• Strong participation: 95.6% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 20.8-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 25,233 annual credentials.

Summit County shows strong potential for accommodation attraction, with a 13.06x concentration and 3,634 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across accommodation, amusement, gambling, and recreation industries, and beverage and tobacco product manufacturing creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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