Tom Green 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 $10,106 (12.9%) under the Texas median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 7.5% below the national average, so the nominal median of $68,370 is worth $73,914 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 10.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 8,513 workers (23.6% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $71,143. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 8,843 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $8.6B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $81,130 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $22,723, a 3.6x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 11.49x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 14 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45.1% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 6 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 2.9x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Elevated vacancy: 10.6% of housing units are vacant, above the Texas rate of 9.4%, and down from 10.9% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 44% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 11.3%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 34.4% of the vacant stock, or 3.6% of all housing units against the 10.6% 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: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $47,634 can pay without cost burden (~$1,191/mo), and 45.8% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 63.9% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 20.2-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 2 institutions in Tom Green County award 2,089 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Tom Green County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 11.49x concentration and 944 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans support activities for mining, leather and allied product manufacturing, and animal production and aquaculture, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45.1% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.