Trousdale County, Tennessee

• 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 3.7% below the national average, so the nominal median of $72,747 is worth $75,542 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 21.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 35 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 325 workers (37.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $59,652. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 530 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $305M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Information averages $112,315 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $21,759, a 5.2x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing concentrates at 7.38x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 4 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 81.4% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: resident household spending. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.6x 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.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $48,668 can pay without cost burden (~$1,217/mo), and 32.5% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 14.4% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Low participation: 52.5% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 8.7% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Trousdale County awards 205 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Trousdale County shows strong potential for nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing attraction, with a 7.38x concentration and 37 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. Resident household spending accounts for 81.4% of it, with food and beverage retailers the largest single sub-sector at 36.7%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.