Irion 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 7.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 405 workers (93.1% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $134,595.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $134,595 while Other Services (except Public Administration) averages $26,971, a 5.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Oil and Gas Extraction concentrates at 487.91x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 4 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 2.9x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 82.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 23.7% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,759/mo).

• Succession risk is real: 30.4% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Strong participation: 89.7% 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.

Irion County shows strong potential for oil and gas extraction attraction, with a 487.91x concentration and 301 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 30.4% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across oil and gas extraction, support activities for mining, and creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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