Texas

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

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 1,716,663 workers (16.7% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $63,521.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $2,769.8B (2024) with per-capita income of $69,823.

• Top specialization: Oil and Gas Extraction concentrates at 6.19x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity.
• Cluster depth: 6 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base across the state.
• Attraction whitespace: 8 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.6x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.

• Strong participation: 82.6% labor force participation indicates an engaged, available workforce statewide.

Texas shows strong potential for oil and gas extraction attraction, with a 6.19x concentration and 65,522 jobs in this sub-sector.

Cluster depth across oil and gas extraction, support activities for mining, and pipeline transportation creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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