Monroe County, New York

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $9,592 (11.2%) under the New York median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• 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 77,199 workers (26.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $61,321. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 48,193 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $65.1B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $116,543 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $26,921, a 4.3x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation concentrates at 4.05x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 44.9% of the employment across them, the largest being health care economy. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 6 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.8x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $43,830 can pay without cost burden (~$1,096/mo), and 49% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 26.1% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 22.1% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 63.2% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 19.9-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: the 6 largest of 15 institutions in Monroe County award 13,783 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Monroe County shows meaningful potential for transit and ground passenger transportation attraction, with a 4.05x concentration and 5,815 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.1% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans transit and ground passenger transportation, educational services, and computer and electronic product manufacturing, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 44.9% of the employment across them, the largest being health care economy. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.