Logan County, Illinois

• 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 $17,032 (20.4%) under the Illinois median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 14.8 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 1,240 workers (22.3% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $70,149. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,865 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.3B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $79,237 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $20,058, a 4.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Crop Production concentrates at 4.27x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 42.2% 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.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.0x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $40,585 can pay without cost burden (~$1,015/mo), and 41.5% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 54.8% labor force participation. The labor force itself fell 3.7% between 2019 and 2024, from 13,168 to 12,677.
• Short commutes: 21.0-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Logan County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Logan County shows meaningful potential for crop production attraction, with a 4.27x concentration and 105 jobs in this sub-sector.

The concentrated base spans crop production, gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and truck transportation, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 42.2% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.