Texas County, Oklahoma

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $4,970 (7.6%) under the Oklahoma median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 12.2% below the national average, so the nominal median of $60,069 is worth $68,416 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Elevated poverty: At 15.7%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 13.6 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 33 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,131 workers (38.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $31,665. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,679 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $2.6B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $89,555 while Retail Trade averages $31,665, a 2.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 54.04x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 6 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 58.6% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: resource and agricultural commodities. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 4 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 2.7x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Elevated vacancy: 19.3% of housing units are vacant, above the Oklahoma rate of 12%, and up from 17.8% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 60.6% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 4.5%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 32.7% of the vacant stock, or 6.3% of all housing units against the 19.3% headline vacancy rate. That is the figure to plan an incoming employer's housing against, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Affordable rent tiers: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $42,708 can pay without cost burden (~$1,068/mo), and 36.1% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 63.2% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 16.9-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.

Texas County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 54.04x concentration and 906 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. Resource and agricultural commodities accounts for 58.6% of it, with animal production and aquaculture the largest single sub-sector at 48.4%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.