Utah County, Utah

• 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 -8.7 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: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 38,035 workers (16.7% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $50,663.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $47.9B (2024) with per-capita income of $59,651.
• Wage stratification: Information averages $135,649 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $21,331, a 6.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets concentrates at 5.22x 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.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 5.4x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$2,517/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Strong participation: 85.4% 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.

Utah County shows strong potential for lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets attraction, with a 5.22x concentration and 221 jobs in this sub-sector, it ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets, publishing industries and telecommunications, and computing infrastructure providers and data processing creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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