Tillamook County, Oregon

• 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 $13,906 (16.8%) under the Oregon median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living erodes income: Local prices run 3.4% above the national average, so the nominal median of $69,105 is worth $66,833 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 9.5 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 49 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 1,661 workers (22.8% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $63,272. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 2,030 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.5B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Health Care and Social Assistance averages $71,867 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $31,133, a 2.3x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Forestry and Logging concentrates at 51.24x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 8 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 37.3% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 6.2x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 74.3% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 37.9% of housing units are vacant, above the Oregon rate of 7.5%, and down from 43.2% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 87% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 3.3% of the vacant stock, or 1.3% of all housing units against the 37.9% 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: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $56,025 can pay without cost burden (~$1,401/mo), and 38.1% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 27.8% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 49.6% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 5.4% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Short commutes: 19.4-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Tillamook County awards 141 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Tillamook County shows strong potential for forestry and logging attraction, with a 51.24x concentration and 139 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 27.8% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans forestry and logging, animal production and aquaculture, and food manufacturing, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 37.3% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.