Cache 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 $13,501 (14.2%) under the Utah median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Cost of living stretches income: Local prices run 4.1% below the national average, so the nominal median of $81,665 is worth $85,156 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at metro level, not county level.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 6.5 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.
• Young population: Median age of 26 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 12,132 workers (25.8% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $66,838. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 11,736 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $9.1B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $92,074 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $19,785, a 4.7x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing concentrates at 7.88x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 85.2% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: goods manufacturing. 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 5.4x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $51,225 can pay without cost burden (~$1,281/mo), and 44.1% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 70.7% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 17.7-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 3 institutions in Cache County award 7,779 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Cache County shows strong potential for leather and allied product manufacturing attraction, with a 7.88x concentration and 73 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Goods manufacturing accounts for 85.2% of it, with food manufacturing the largest single sub-sector at 42.1%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.