Greeley 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 14.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 44 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest sector: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting employs 82 workers (23.8% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $45,326.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $192M (2024) with per-capita income of $74,981.
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $58,984 while Health Care and Social Assistance averages $20,879, a 2.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 55.84x 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.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 1.9x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 81.7% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 21.2% 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 (~$1,598/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Succession risk is real: 27.2% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Strong participation: 93.7% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 18.3-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 12,952 annual credentials.

Greeley County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 55.84x concentration and 59 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 27.2% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across animal production and aquaculture, gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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