Fremont County, Idaho

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

• Largest sector: Accommodation and Food Services employs 485 workers (21.7% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $23,114.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $550M (2024) with per-capita income of $47,561.
• Wage stratification: Transportation and Warehousing averages $55,566 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $23,114, a 2.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Crop Production concentrates at 14.72x 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.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.3x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 82.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 47.2% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,817/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Strong participation: 80.1% 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 17,074 annual credentials.

Fremont County shows strong potential for crop production attraction, with a 14.72x concentration and 193 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across crop production, accommodation, and gasoline stations and fuel dealers creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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