Warrick County, Indiana

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 8.5% below the national average, so the nominal median of $89,844 is worth $98,190 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 3,856 workers (27.1% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $71,538. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 2,471 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.2B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $94,340 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $21,104, a 4.5x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Utilities concentrates at 4.53x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 5 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 72.7% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: health care economy. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 4 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.7x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 82.4% 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 $54,241 can pay without cost burden (~$1,356/mo), and 38% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 22.5% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 64% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Warrick County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Warrick County shows meaningful potential for utilities attraction, with a 4.53x concentration and 322 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.5% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Health care economy accounts for 72.7% of it, with nursing and residential care facilities the largest single sub-sector at 37.5%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.