Washington 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 0.5 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 13,855 workers (20.3% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $57,417.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $11.6B (2024) with per-capita income of $58,047.
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $73,705 while Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation averages $23,776, a 3.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Specialty Trade Contractors concentrates at 2.74x the national norm.
• Cluster depth: 7 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.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 6.3x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 71.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 15.1% 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 (~$2,016/mo).

• Strong participation: 84.8% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 19.2-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 68,482 annual credentials.

Washington County shows emerging potential for specialty trade contractors attraction, with a 2.74x concentration and 7,892 jobs in this sub-sector.

The interconnected base across specialty trade contractors, building material and garden supply retailers, and accommodation creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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