Cannon County, Tennessee

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Elevated poverty: At 18.3%, 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 18.9 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Transportation and Warehousing employs 294 workers (22.8% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $63,929.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $431M (2024) with per-capita income of $51,584.
• Wage stratification: Administrative and Support and Waste Management averages $85,859 while Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation averages $12,843, a 6.7x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Truck Transportation concentrates at 3.25x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 6 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.2x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 78.4% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 10.5% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.

• Succession risk is real: 24.4% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Strong participation: 75.0% 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 17,588 annual credentials.

Cannon County shows meaningful potential for truck transportation attraction, with a 3.25x concentration and 74 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 24.4% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across truck transportation, nursing and residential care facilities, and gasoline stations and fuel dealers creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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