Greeley County, Kansas

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 9.9% below the national average, so the nominal median of $80,565 is worth $89,417 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 5.9 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 78 workers (43.1% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $30,194. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 320 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $281M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $73,488 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $19,576, a 3.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Real Estate concentrates at 1.85x the national norm.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 1.4x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 75% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 17.9% of housing units are vacant, above the Kansas rate of 9.2%, and down from 18% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 51.7% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 20.3%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 28% of the vacant stock, or 5% of all housing units against the 17.9% 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.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes shown above sit below what a household on the median renter income of $74,219 can pay without cost burden (~$1,855/mo), and 7.4% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened; a cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Succession risk is real: 24.4% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 71.3% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Greeley County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Greeley County shows emerging potential for real estate attraction, with a 1.85x concentration and 8 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 24.4% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.