Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Cost of living erodes income: Local prices run 5.7% above the national average, so the nominal median of $103,545 is worth $97,961 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 5.8 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 32,086 workers (20.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $73,784. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 21,316 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $38.1B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $151,042 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $30,442, a 5.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing concentrates at 8.54x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 12 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 59.6% 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.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 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 4.1x 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 $63,918 can pay without cost burden (~$1,598/mo), and 46.5% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 23.5% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 70.4% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: the 6 largest of 9 institutions in Hillsborough County award 2,806 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Hillsborough County shows strong potential for computer and electronic product manufacturing attraction, with a 8.54x concentration and 11,402 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 23.5% 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 59.6% of it, with computer and electronic product manufacturing the largest single sub-sector at 32.7%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.