Bulloch County, Georgia

• 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 $18,543 (24.0%) under the Georgia median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 3.7% below the national average, so the nominal median of $58,810 is worth $61,070 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Elevated poverty: At 23%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Young population: Median age of 30 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 3,822 workers (19.5% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $50,710. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 6,689 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.8B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Construction averages $70,524 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $18,804, a 3.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Wood Product Manufacturing concentrates at 3.59x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 11 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 49.7% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 5 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 3.8x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor 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 $40,490 can pay without cost burden (~$1,012/mo), and 41.8% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 59.6% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 8.9% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: 2 institutions in Bulloch County award 6,963 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Bulloch County shows meaningful potential for wood product manufacturing attraction, with a 3.59x concentration and 241 jobs in this sub-sector.

The concentrated base spans wood product manufacturing, nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing, and transportation equipment manufacturing, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 49.7% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.