Robertson 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 $6,240 (8.0%) under the Texas median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 9.0% below the national average, so the nominal median of $72,236 is worth $79,380 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 13.7 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Wholesale Trade employs 618 workers (17.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $81,378. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,164 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.3B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $156,142 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $19,082, a 8.2x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 25.59x 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, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 40.3% of the employment across them, the largest being freight and distribution. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.6x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• High home ownership: 72.4% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 22.2% of housing units are vacant, above the Texas rate of 9.4%, and down from 27.2% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 49% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 11.2% of the vacant stock, or 2.5% of all housing units against the 22.2% headline vacancy rate. Absorbable supply for an incoming employer is thin, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $40,089 can pay without cost burden (~$1,002/mo), and 34.8% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 25.4% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 23.9% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 57.2% labor force participation. The labor force itself fell 2.1% between 2019 and 2024, from 7,918 to 7,748.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Robertson County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Robertson County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 25.59x concentration and 267 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 23.9% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans animal production and aquaculture, utilities, and gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 40.3% of the employment across them, the largest being freight and distribution. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.