Woodward County, Oklahoma

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

• Largest sector: Retail Trade employs 1,104 workers (19.3% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $32,022.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.4B (2024) with per-capita income of $46,748.
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $103,615 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $18,928, a 5.5x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 53.67x 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.

• 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: 73.2% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 15.6% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Affordable rent tiers: 4 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,535/mo).

• Strong participation: 84.6% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 21.3-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 16,669 annual credentials.

Woodward County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 53.67x concentration and 762 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across support activities for mining, pipeline transportation, and animal production and aquaculture creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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