Camden 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 $2,975 (3.8%) 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 $74,378 is worth $77,236 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 11.1 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 35 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Accommodation and Food Services employs 2,115 workers (21.8% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $23,637. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 5,428 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $2.8B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $91,777 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $23,637, a 3.9x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Forestry and Logging concentrates at 4.82x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 46% 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.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.5x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $49,569 can pay without cost burden (~$1,239/mo), and 46.7% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 60.9% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Camden County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Camden County shows meaningful potential for forestry and logging attraction, with a 4.82x concentration and 18 jobs in this sub-sector.

The concentrated base spans forestry and logging, gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and credit intermediation and related activities, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 46% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.