Jim Wells 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 24.7%, 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 19.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 2,040 workers (27.1% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $108,464.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $108,464 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $16,916, a 6.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 7.84x 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.
• 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 2.4x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Elevated vacancy: 18.2% vacancy rate; potential opportunity for redevelopment or repositioning.
• Affordable rent tiers: 4 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,297/mo).

• Talent pipeline: 6 local institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 48,998 annual credentials.

Jim Wells County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 7.84x concentration and 203 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across animal production and aquaculture, rental and leasing services, and ambulatory health care services creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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