Nebraska

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Broadly in line with U.S. norms across income, poverty, education, and age.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 143,855 workers (20.6% of the tracked sectors), at an average wage of $63,833. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 167,617 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $189.2B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Management of Companies and Enterprises averages $113,634 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $23,590, a 4.8x spread in the same economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 5.04x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base across the state.
• Attraction whitespace: 8 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.1x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Affordable rent tiers: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $47,168 can pay without cost burden (~$1,179/mo), and 41.9% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 71.2% of the population aged 18+ is in the labor force, reflecting a steady, available workforce statewide.
• Short commutes: 19.2-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage for site selectors.

Nebraska shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 5.04x concentration and 8,740 jobs in this sub-sector.

Cluster depth across animal production and aquaculture, food manufacturing, and leather and allied product manufacturing creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.