Travis County, Texas

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 20.9 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.

• Largest private-sector industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services employs 128,694 workers (19.1% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $164,124. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 140,454 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $202.7B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Information averages $193,705 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $35,996, a 5.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing concentrates at 3.92x 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, but 59.6% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: business and professional services. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 5 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 5.3x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• Affordable rent tiers: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $70,009 can pay without cost burden (~$1,750/mo), and 46.8% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 73.3% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: the 6 largest of 18 institutions in Travis County award 27,394 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Travis County shows meaningful potential for computer and electronic product manufacturing attraction, with a 3.92x concentration and 23,333 jobs in this sub-sector.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Business and professional services accounts for 59.6% of it, with professional, scientific, and technical services the largest single sub-sector at 59.5%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.