Los Alamos County, New Mexico

• 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 -34.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Administrative and Support and Waste Management employs 1,498 workers (34.9% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $108,021.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.8B (2024) with per-capita income of $98,378.
• Wage stratification: Information averages $199,167 while Educational Services averages $26,749, a 7.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• 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: 74.8% 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 (~$3,678/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Succession risk is real: 22.7% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Strong participation: 92.5% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 14.7-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 16,649 annual credentials.

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