Box Elder 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 $10,616 (11.2%) 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 9.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 33 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 7,441 workers (37.3% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $89,374. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 3,286 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $3.6B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $89,374 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $18,782, a 4.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Wood Product Manufacturing concentrates at 4.69x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 13 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.4% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. 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 4.8x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 76% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $55,477 can pay without cost burden (~$1,387/mo), and 36.4% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 65.5% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Box Elder County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Box Elder County shows meaningful potential for wood product manufacturing attraction, with a 4.69x concentration and 303 jobs in this sub-sector.

The concentrated base spans wood product manufacturing, fabricated metal product manufacturing, and animal production and aquaculture, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.4% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.