Cleveland County, Oklahoma

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 9.6% below the national average, so the nominal median of $77,068 is worth $85,252 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Young population: Median age of 35 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Accommodation and Food Services employs 12,874 workers (21.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $23,145. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 22,140 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $12.5B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $79,273 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $23,145, a 3.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Machinery Manufacturing concentrates at 3.08x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 5 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 64.1% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: visitor economy. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 5 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 3.1x 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 $48,550 can pay without cost burden (~$1,214/mo), and 45.2% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 64.6% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 4 institutions in Cleveland County award 8,467 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Cleveland County shows meaningful potential for machinery manufacturing attraction, with a 3.08x concentration and 1,778 jobs in this sub-sector.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Visitor economy accounts for 64.1% of it, all of it in food services and drinking places. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.