Jim Hogg 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 31.4%, 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 20.9 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 26 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest sector: Retail Trade employs 197 workers (49.7% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $27,380.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $174,548 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $15,116, a 11.5x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 16.68x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• 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 3.1x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Elevated vacancy: 31.7% 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 (~$1,055/mo).

• 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.

Jim Hogg County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 16.68x concentration and 47 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across animal production and aquaculture, , and motor vehicle and parts dealers creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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