Madison County, Ohio

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 4.5% below the national average, so the nominal median of $87,045 is worth $91,147 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 11.5 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: Transportation and Warehousing employs 8,431 workers (48% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $50,038. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 3,286 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $84,708 while Educational Services averages $17,111, a 5.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Warehousing and Storage concentrates at 24.96x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 71.7% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: freight and distribution. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 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 2.9x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 77.5% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Affordable rent tiers: 1 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $45,398 can pay without cost burden (~$1,135/mo), and 36.7% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 59.1% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 7.6% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Madison County awards 21 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Madison County shows strong potential for warehousing and storage attraction, with a 24.96x concentration and 7,480 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Freight and distribution accounts for 71.7% of it, with warehousing and storage the largest single sub-sector at 56.7%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.