Coweta County, Georgia

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 7,294 workers (18.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $40,996. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 5,890 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $7.7B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $77,978 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $23,193, a 3.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing concentrates at 3.41x 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 44.5% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 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 3.7x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 78.4% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $58,502 can pay without cost burden (~$1,463/mo), and 52.1% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 17.4% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 22.1% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 64% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Coweta County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Coweta County shows meaningful potential for plastics and rubber products manufacturing attraction, with a 3.41x concentration and 795 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.1% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans plastics and rubber products manufacturing, heavy and civil engineering construction, and nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 44.5% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.