Coryell 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 $7,175 (9.1%) under the Texas median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 8.9% below the national average, so the nominal median of $71,301 is worth $78,267 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 16.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 33 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,962 workers (23.7% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $34,500. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 5,840 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $2.2B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $116,256 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $18,512, a 6.3x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 3.27x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.3% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 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.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $52,704 can pay without cost burden (~$1,318/mo), and 38.9% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 56.1% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 11.7% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Coryell County awards 2,687 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Coryell County shows meaningful potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 3.27x concentration and 62 jobs in this sub-sector.

The concentrated base spans animal production and aquaculture, general merchandise retailers, and repair and maintenance, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.3% of the employment across them, the largest being visitor economy. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.