Johnson County, Kansas

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 7.5% below the national average, so the nominal median of $109,208 is worth $118,063 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 21.9 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 54,423 workers (18.5% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $67,556. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 33,270 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $67B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $135,062 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $28,009, a 4.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing concentrates at 2.52x the national norm.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 31.3% of the employment across them, the largest being finance and insurance. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.6x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $66,348 can pay without cost burden (~$1,659/mo), and 40.7% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 71.7% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 20.6-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: the 6 largest of 10 institutions in Johnson County award 3,921 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Johnson County shows emerging potential for computer and electronic product manufacturing attraction, with a 2.52x concentration and 6,413 jobs in this sub-sector.

The concentrated base spans computer and electronic product manufacturing, printing and related support activities, and lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 31.3% of the employment across them, the largest being finance and insurance. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.