Kerr 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 $9,081 (11.6%) under the Texas median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Aging population: Median age of 49 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 2,831 workers (24.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $42,553. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 3,352 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.2B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Administrative and Support and Waste Management averages $120,668 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $29,556, a 4.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Fishing, Hunting and Trapping concentrates at 22.87x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 12 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.1% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• 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: 70.1% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 11.8% of housing units are vacant, above the Texas rate of 9.4%, and down from 13.1% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 35.5% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 35% of the vacant stock, or 4.1% of all housing units against the 11.8% 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.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $50,563 can pay without cost burden (~$1,264/mo), and 42.4% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 26.9% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 55.5% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 6.2% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Short commutes: 21.5-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 2 institutions in Kerr County award 352 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Kerr County shows strong potential for fishing, hunting and trapping attraction, with a 22.87x concentration and 21 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 26.9% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans fishing, hunting and trapping, heavy and civil engineering construction, and accommodation, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.1% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.