Livingston Parish, Louisiana

• 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 9.2% below the national average, so the nominal median of $80,122 is worth $88,240 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 15.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 5,176 workers (22.7% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $31,974. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 6,363 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $4.2B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $83,990 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $19,879, a 4.2x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Rental and Leasing Services concentrates at 5.71x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 16 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 37.2% 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.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 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 2.9x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 80.7% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Vacancy level: 10.6% of housing units are vacant, below the Louisiana rate of 14.4%, and down from 14.7% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 55.3% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 13.3%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 25.8% of the vacant stock, or 2.7% of all housing units against the 10.6% headline vacancy rate. Absorbable supply for an incoming employer is thin, 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 $48,272 can pay without cost burden (~$1,207/mo), and 42% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 62.1% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Livingston Parish awards 27 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Livingston Parish shows strong potential for rental and leasing services attraction, with a 5.71x concentration and 610 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans rental and leasing services, waste management and remediation services, and nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 37.2% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.