Bexar 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 $6,135 (7.8%) under the Texas median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 5.3% below the national average, so the nominal median of $72,341 is worth $76,390 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Elevated poverty: At 14.6%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Young population: Median age of 35 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 136,031 workers (20.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $60,815. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 155,977 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $159.6B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $117,181 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $28,529, a 4.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Oil and Gas Extraction concentrates at 1.97x the national norm.
• Cluster depth: 5 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 87.8% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: finance and insurance. 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 3.6x 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 $49,697 can pay without cost burden (~$1,242/mo), and 50.6% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 66.1% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: the 6 largest of 39 institutions in Bexar County award 19,673 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Bexar County shows emerging potential for oil and gas extraction attraction, with a 1.97x concentration and 1,348 jobs in this sub-sector.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Finance and insurance accounts for 87.8% of it, with credit intermediation and related activities the largest single sub-sector at 45.7%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.