Haralson 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 $5,226 (6.8%) under the Georgia median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 15.4%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 18.7 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 2,175 workers (45.8% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $65,111. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,645 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.4B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $106,689 while Retail Trade averages $32,994, a 3.2x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing concentrates at 13.31x 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, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 46.3% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. 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 3.2x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 71.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $47,736 can pay without cost burden (~$1,193/mo), and 36.6% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 61.1% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Haralson County awards 2,496 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Haralson County shows strong potential for transportation equipment manufacturing attraction, with a 13.31x concentration and 1,129 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans transportation equipment manufacturing, gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and heavy and civil engineering construction, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 46.3% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.