Nantucket County, Massachusetts

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Cost of living erodes income: Local prices run 5.8% above the national average, so the nominal median of $139,688 is worth $132,030 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 20.6 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.
• Aging population: Median age of 42 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Accommodation and Food Services employs 1,727 workers (25.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $59,699. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 885 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $2.1B (2024).

• Top specialization: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar concentrates at 10.56x 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 43.4% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 11.4x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 71.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 58.3% of housing units are vacant, above the Massachusetts rate of 8.1%, and down from 69.9% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 95.5% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 1.4% of the vacant stock, or 0.8% of all housing units against the 58.3% headline vacancy rate. Absorbable supply for an incoming employer is thin, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $73,466 can pay without cost burden (~$1,837/mo), and 51% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 16.1% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Healthy participation: 71.8% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 16.0-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Nantucket County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Nantucket County shows strong potential for museums, historical sites, and similar attraction, with a 10.56x concentration and 109 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans museums, historical sites, and similar, scenic and sightseeing transportation, and amusement, gambling, and recreation industries, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 43.4% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.