Beaver County, Utah

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $15,806 (16.6%) under the Utah median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 12.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 34 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 396 workers (27.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $28,750. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 776 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $587M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Utilities averages $112,278 while Wholesale Trade averages $23,041, a 4.9x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Utilities concentrates at 31.92x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 5 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45.6% of the employment across them, the largest being utilities and energy delivery. 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 3.6x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 81% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 15.2% of housing units are vacant, above the Utah rate of 8.1%, and down from 24.5% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 70.7% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 8.6% of the vacant stock, or 1.3% of all housing units against the 15.2% headline vacancy rate. Absorbable supply for an incoming employer is thin, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Affordable rent tiers: 4 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $61,953 can pay without cost burden (~$1,549/mo), and 25.5% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 56.4% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 11.1% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Short commutes: 16.7-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Beaver County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Beaver County shows strong potential for utilities attraction, with a 31.92x concentration and 331 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans utilities, gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and truck transportation, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45.6% of the employment across them, the largest being utilities and energy delivery. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.