Mayagüez Municipio, Puerto Rico

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Elevated poverty: At 53.3%, the rate is in distressed-county territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 8.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 43 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest sector: Retail Trade employs 5,031 workers (26.7% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $22,913.
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $53,493 while Retail Trade averages $22,913, a 2.3x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Apparel Manufacturing concentrates at 46.22x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 6.1x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• Renter-majority market: 49.8% owner-occupied; flexible labor mobility but consider home-buying pipeline if attracting families.
• Elevated vacancy: 29.3% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers fall below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$457/mo); workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Short commutes: 21.7-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 14,464 annual credentials.

Mayagüez Municipio shows strong potential for apparel manufacturing attraction, with a 46.22x concentration and 767 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across apparel manufacturing, clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers, and health and personal care retailers creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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