Canyon County, Idaho

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $1,312 (1.7%) under the Idaho median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 12.5 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: Construction employs 11,921 workers (16.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $63,880. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 10,065 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $11.7B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $79,571 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $23,440, a 3.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 6.59x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 12 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 41.7% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 6 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 5.1x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 75.5% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Affordable rent tiers: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $55,813 can pay without cost burden (~$1,395/mo), and 45.3% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 64.8% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 5 institutions in Canyon County award 2,599 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Canyon County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 6.59x concentration and 1,073 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans animal production and aquaculture, wood product manufacturing, and support activities for agriculture and forestry, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 41.7% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.