Carson City, Nevada

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $5,905 (7.5%) under the Nevada median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 12.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• 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: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 4,556 workers (22.6% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $71,002. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 9,549 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $5.4B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $101,452 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $27,877, a 3.6x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Primary Metal Manufacturing concentrates at 3.33x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 59.2% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: goods manufacturing. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 6.3x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be 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 $49,679 can pay without cost burden (~$1,242/mo), and 47.5% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 24% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 59.1% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 5.2% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Short commutes: 20.5-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 2 institutions in Carson City award 1,122 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Carson City shows meaningful potential for primary metal manufacturing attraction, with a 3.33x concentration and 207 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 24% 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. Goods manufacturing accounts for 59.2% of it, with motor vehicle and parts dealers the largest single sub-sector at 26.9%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.