Virginia

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, affecting retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base statewide.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by -6.5 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 514,780 workers (17.9% of the top displayed sectors), at an average wage of $67,922.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $761.7B (2024) with per-capita income of $77,351.

• Top specialization: concentrates at 3.55x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy.
• Cluster depth: 3 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base across the state.
• Attraction whitespace: 8 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.1x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.

• Strong participation: 85.8% labor force participation indicates an engaged, available workforce statewide.

Virginia shows meaningful potential for attraction, with a 3.55x concentration and 21,609 jobs in this sub-sector.

Cluster depth across , professional, scientific, and technical services, and computing infrastructure providers and data processing creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.

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