Orange County, Florida

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Broadly in line with U.S. norms across income, poverty, and education.

• Largest private-sector industry: Accommodation and Food Services employs 137,836 workers (18.7% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $41,924. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 84,054 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $160.4B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $119,689 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $41,924, a 2.9x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries concentrates at 6.97x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 6 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 80.4% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: visitor economy. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 6 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.9x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Vacancy level: 10.1% of housing units are vacant, below the Florida rate of 14.7%, and down from 13.9% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is units for rent at 39.8% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 24%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 52.3% of the vacant stock, or 5.3% of all housing units against the 10.1% 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.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $58,569 can pay without cost burden (~$1,464/mo), and 56.2% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 27.9% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Healthy participation: 67.5% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: the 6 largest of 18 institutions in Orange County award 48,229 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Orange County shows strong potential for amusement, gambling, and recreation industries attraction, with a 6.97x concentration and 86,918 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. Visitor economy accounts for 80.4% of it, with amusement, gambling, and recreation industries the largest single sub-sector at 44%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.