Cass County, Nebraska

• 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 3.5 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 42 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest sector: Retail Trade employs 760 workers (19.5% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $32,925.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $96,375 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $20,163, a 4.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Mining (except Oil and Gas) concentrates at 24.75x 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.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.8x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 85.4% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.

• Succession risk is real: 25.4% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Strong participation: 93.1% 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 12,952 annual credentials.

Cass County shows strong potential for mining (except oil and gas) attraction, with a 24.75x concentration and 187 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 25.4% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across mining (except oil and gas), truck transportation, 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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