Logan 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 $83,899 is worth $92,809 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,500 workers (22.8% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $38,099. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,517 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.3B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $70,489 while Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation averages $20,339, a 3.5x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 11.37x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 39.6% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• 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: 85.2% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $33,729 can pay without cost burden (~$843/mo), and 43.8% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 20.5% 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.
• Low participation: 58.2% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 11.5% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Logan County awards 295 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Logan County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 11.37x concentration and 173 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.1% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans support activities for mining, gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and support activities for agriculture and forestry, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 39.6% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.