Andrews County, Texas

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Elevated poverty: At 15.6%, 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 18.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 33 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest sector: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 1,676 workers (31.9% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $108,142.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $5.2B (2024) with per-capita income of $60,201.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $108,142 while Retail Trade averages $46,753, a 2.3x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 104.96x 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 2.7x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 78.5% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Affordable rent tiers: 4 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,806/mo).

• Strong participation: 81.0% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 0-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 48,998 annual credentials.

Andrews County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 104.96x concentration and 1,432 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

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

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