Glenn County, California

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $31,983 (32.3%) under the California median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living erodes income: Local prices run 10.7% above the national average, so the nominal median of $67,139 is worth $60,650 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Elevated poverty: At 16%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 20.6 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting employs 2,279 workers (37.1% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $52,833. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 2,318 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.5B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $73,661 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $26,590, a 2.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry concentrates at 37.60x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 57.7% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: resource and agricultural commodities. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 5.2x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• Elevated vacancy: 11.4% of housing units are vacant, above the California rate of 7.5%, and up from 8.4% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 48.9% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 9.8%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 30.8% of the vacant stock, or 3.5% of all housing units against the 11.4% headline vacancy rate. That is the figure to plan an incoming employer's housing against, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Affordable rent tiers: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $43,274 can pay without cost burden (~$1,082/mo), and 43.8% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 61.4% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Glenn County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Glenn County shows strong potential for support activities for agriculture and forestry attraction, with a 37.60x concentration and 832 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Resource and agricultural commodities accounts for 57.7% of it, with crop production the largest single sub-sector at 32.5%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.