Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 12.2% below the national average, so the nominal median of $71,975 is worth $81,976 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 11.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 849 workers (17.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $53,515. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,093 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $2.8B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Transportation and Warehousing averages $83,702 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $16,702, a 5.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 49.99x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 27.5% of the employment across them, the largest being resource and agricultural commodities. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 74.5% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Vacancy level: 12% of housing units are vacant, level with the Oklahoma rate of 12%, and down from 14.1% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 67.7% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 8.8%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 18.8% of the vacant stock, or 2.3% of all housing units against the 12% 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: 4 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $53,883 can pay without cost burden (~$1,347/mo), and 28% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 64.4% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 21.8-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Kingfisher County awards 63 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Kingfisher County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 49.99x concentration and 598 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans support activities for mining, utilities, and truck transportation, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 27.5% of the employment across them, the largest being resource and agricultural commodities. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.