San Juan County, Utah

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Elevated poverty: At 18.1%, 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 15.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 35 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest sector: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 448 workers (35.5% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $88,678.
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $88,678 while Retail Trade averages $23,895, a 3.7x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Mining (except Oil and Gas) concentrates at 48.29x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 8 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.5x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 80.9% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 19.8% 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 (~$1,612/mo).

• Strong participation: 76.5% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 6 local institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 68,482 annual credentials.

San Juan County shows strong potential for mining (except oil and gas) attraction, with a 48.29x concentration and 276 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

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

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