Teton County, Idaho

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 4.5% below the national average, so the nominal median of $99,805 is worth $104,508 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 14.2 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.

• Largest private-sector industry: Construction employs 878 workers (23.5% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $63,857. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 533 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $653M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $91,697 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $27,563, a 3.3x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Construction of Buildings concentrates at 5.01x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 48.7% 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.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 6.9x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 80.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 27.8% of housing units are vacant, above the Idaho rate of 10.3%, and down from 36.4% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 79.2% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 11.8% of the vacant stock, or 3.3% of all housing units against the 27.8% headline vacancy rate. That is the figure to plan an incoming employer's housing against, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $66,929 can pay without cost burden (~$1,673/mo), and 38% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 73.9% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Teton County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Teton County shows strong potential for construction of buildings attraction, with a 5.01x concentration and 294 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans construction of buildings, amusement, gambling, and recreation industries, and crop production, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 48.7% 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.