Freestone County, Texas

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 19.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Accommodation and Food Services employs 632 workers (22.3% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $18,881.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.3B (2024) with per-capita income of $50,965.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $96,755 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $18,881, a 5.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 48.11x 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.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.8x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 75.4% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 22.3% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,499/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Succession risk is real: 22.4% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Talent pipeline: 6 local institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 48,998 annual credentials.

Freestone County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 48.11x concentration and 420 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.4% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across support activities for mining, pipeline transportation, and nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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