Sagadahoc County, Maine

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 8.5 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.
• Aging population: Median age of 47 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,892 workers (25.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $38,901. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,935 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.1B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $93,413 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $31,297, a 3.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction concentrates at 3.61x 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 66.6% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: resident household spending. 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.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.8x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 77.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Vacancy level: 14.5% of housing units are vacant, below the Maine rate of 20.6%, and down from 15.1% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 57.9% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 10.1% of the vacant stock, or 1.5% of all housing units against the 14.5% 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: 1 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $46,232 can pay without cost burden (~$1,156/mo), and 40.3% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 27.1% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 62.7% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Sagadahoc County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Sagadahoc County shows meaningful potential for heavy and civil engineering construction attraction, with a 3.61x concentration and 485 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 27.1% 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. Resident household spending accounts for 66.6% of it, with food and beverage retailers the largest single sub-sector at 33.5%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.