Douglas County, Nevada

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Aging population: Median age of 55 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 4,109 workers (25.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $39,917. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 2,681 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $4B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $186,649 while Retail Trade averages $37,242, a 5.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Accommodation concentrates at 9.54x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 8 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 47.9% 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.
• Attraction whitespace: 4 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 6.8x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 78.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 14.1% of housing units are vacant, above the Nevada rate of 9.3%, and down from 15% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 64.4% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 13.9% of the vacant stock, or 2% of all housing units against the 14.1% 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: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $60,605 can pay without cost burden (~$1,515/mo), and 50.5% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 32.8% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 50.1% labor force participation. The labor force itself fell 2.5% between 2019 and 2024, from 22,401 to 21,845.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Douglas County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Douglas County shows strong potential for accommodation attraction, with a 9.54x concentration and 2,472 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 32.8% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans accommodation, computer and electronic product manufacturing, and amusement, gambling, and recreation industries, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 47.9% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.