North Carolina

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, affecting retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base statewide.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 0.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 601,666 workers (17.4% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $65,014.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $844.2B (2024) with per-capita income of $65,634.

• Top specialization: Textile Mills concentrates at 7.88x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity.
• Cluster depth: 8 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base across the state.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment.

• 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.
• Elevated vacancy: 12.5% vacancy rate; potential redevelopment opportunity.

• Strong participation: 83.1% labor force participation indicates an engaged, available workforce statewide.

North Carolina shows strong potential for textile mills attraction, with a 7.88x concentration and 20,321 jobs in this sub-sector.

Cluster depth across textile mills, furniture and related product manufacturing, and electrical equipment, appliance manufacturing creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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