Yuba County, California

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $22,749 (23.0%) under the California median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living erodes income: Local prices run 4.2% above the national average, so the nominal median of $76,373 is worth $73,295 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Elevated poverty: At 14.2%, 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 18.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 34 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,790 workers (24.8% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $41,053. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 8,379 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $4.5B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Management of Companies and Enterprises averages $102,666 while Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation averages $27,543, a 3.7x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Crop Production concentrates at 11.41x 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, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 34.4% of the employment across them, the largest being health care economy. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 4 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 5.4x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• Affordable rent tiers: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $55,292 can pay without cost burden (~$1,382/mo), and 48.7% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 61.5% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Yuba County awards 2,374 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Yuba County shows strong potential for crop production attraction, with a 11.41x concentration and 570 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans crop production, wood product manufacturing, and nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 34.4% of the employment across them, the largest being health care economy. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.