Boone County, Indiana

• 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 -16.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Transportation and Warehousing employs 14,462 workers (39.6% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $53,359.
• Wage stratification: Construction averages $77,940 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $24,060, a 3.2x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Warehousing and Storage concentrates at 22.60x 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: 8 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 3.4x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 78.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.

• Strong participation: 90.4% 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 59,581 annual credentials.

Boone County shows strong potential for warehousing and storage attraction, with a 22.60x concentration and 12,530 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across warehousing and storage, health and personal care retailers, 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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