Dodge County, Minnesota

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

• Largest sector: Manufacturing employs 1,470 workers (36.0% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $77,798.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $118,776 while Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation averages $13,242, a 9.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 15.95x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 4 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 5 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 3.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 86.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$2,393/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Strong participation: 93.4% 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 41,393 annual credentials.

Dodge County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 15.95x concentration and 164 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across animal production and aquaculture, heavy and civil engineering construction, and merchant wholesalers, durable goods creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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