Orange County, New York

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

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 24,237 workers (21.3% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $64,612.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $27.7B (2024) with per-capita income of $63,155.
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $78,441 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $29,239, a 2.7x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation concentrates at 6.55x 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: 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 4.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$2,429/mo).

• Strong participation: 81.8% 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 37,099 annual credentials.

Orange County shows strong potential for transit and ground passenger transportation attraction, with a 6.55x concentration and 3,570 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across transit and ground passenger transportation, , and clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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