Georgia

• 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, education, and age.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 613,199 workers (17.1% of the tracked sectors), at an average wage of $70,125. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 683,579 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $881.5B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $124,218 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $27,361, a 4.5x spread in the same economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Textile Product Mills concentrates at 8.19x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity.
• Cluster depth: 9 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 3.9x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Elevated vacancy: 10.3% vacancy rate; potential redevelopment 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 $49,820 can pay without cost burden (~$1,246/mo), and 48.4% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 24.8% severely so.

• Healthy participation: 66.1% of the population aged 18+ is in the labor force, reflecting a steady, available workforce statewide.

Georgia shows strong potential for textile product mills attraction, with a 8.19x concentration and 24,023 jobs in this sub-sector.

Cluster depth across textile product mills, textile mills, and forestry and logging creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.