Angelina County, Texas

• 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 $17,516 (22.3%) under the Texas median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 15.8%, 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 17.8 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 7,628 workers (29% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $53,778. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 6,657 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $4.5B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $80,014 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $18,014, a 4.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Forestry and Logging concentrates at 12.45x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 58.7% 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: 6 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: 12.8% of housing units are vacant, above the Texas rate of 9.4%, and down from 15.9% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 60.6% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 21%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 14.1% of the vacant stock, or 1.8% of all housing units against the 12.8% 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 $40,537 can pay without cost burden (~$1,013/mo), and 46.4% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 58.7% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 1.6% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Short commutes: 20.9-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 2 institutions in Angelina County award 920 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Angelina County shows strong potential for forestry and logging attraction, with a 12.45x concentration and 124 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. Health care economy accounts for 58.7% of it, with ambulatory health care services the largest single sub-sector at 28.9%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.