Dimmit 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 $39,668 (50.5%) under the Texas median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 41.1%, 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 25.9 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 1,665 workers (49.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $90,634. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,223 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.6B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $90,634 while Retail Trade averages $31,177, a 2.9x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 143.24x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 59.3% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: resource and agricultural commodities. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.2x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Elevated vacancy: 25.5% of housing units are vacant, above the Texas rate of 9.4%, and down from 28.7% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 26% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 20.3% of the vacant stock, or 5.2% of all housing units against the 25.5% headline vacancy rate. That is the figure to plan an incoming employer's housing against, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.

• Low participation: 46.1% labor force participation. The labor force itself fell 22.4% between 2019 and 2024, from 3,844 to 2,982.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Dimmit County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Dimmit County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 143.24x concentration and 1,357 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. Resource and agricultural commodities accounts for 59.3% of it, with support activities for mining the largest single sub-sector at 56%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.