Pennsylvania

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

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 1,146,404 workers (25.5% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $66,122.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $1,007.9B (2024) with per-capita income of $70,678.

• Top specialization: Primary Metal Manufacturing concentrates at 2.37x the national norm.
• Cluster depth: 7 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 3.3x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.

• 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: 85.6% labor force participation indicates an engaged, available workforce statewide.

Pennsylvania shows emerging potential for primary metal manufacturing attraction, with a 2.37x concentration and 33,413 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.7% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

Cluster depth across primary metal manufacturing, wholesale trade agents and brokers, and warehousing and storage creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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