Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $1,729 (2.2%) under the Pennsylvania median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 41,578 workers (32.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $74,388. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 38,461 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $28.9B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $107,794 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $27,095, a 4.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Couriers and Messengers concentrates at 3.88x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 11 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 50.6% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: health care economy. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 8 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 $49,181 can pay without cost burden (~$1,230/mo), and 42.7% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 64.6% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 21.5-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 5 institutions in Dauphin County award 4,433 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Dauphin County shows meaningful potential for couriers and messengers attraction, with a 3.88x concentration and 4,958 jobs in this sub-sector.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Health care economy accounts for 50.6% of it, with hospitals the largest single sub-sector at 30.9%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.