Troup 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 $20,577 (26.6%) 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 $56,776 is worth $58,957 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Elevated poverty: At 16.9%, 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 11.9 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 12,599 workers (35.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $70,525. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 3,945 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $5.3B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $87,739 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $22,104, a 4.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Textile Product Mills concentrates at 76.85x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 53.5% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: goods manufacturing. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 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 $38,786 can pay without cost burden (~$970/mo), and 52.3% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 61.8% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 2 institutions in Troup County award 398 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Troup County shows strong potential for textile product mills attraction, with a 76.85x concentration and 2,144 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Goods manufacturing accounts for 53.5% of it, with transportation equipment manufacturing the largest single sub-sector at 39.2%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.