Kane 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 $18,074 (19.0%) 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 6.9 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 43 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Accommodation and Food Services employs 1,109 workers (37.5% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $33,615. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 795 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $586M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Information averages $77,118 while Real Estate and Rental and Leasing averages $24,533, a 3.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Accommodation concentrates at 14.89x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 6 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 70.1% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: visitor economy. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.

• 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.
• High home ownership: 80.4% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 46.2% of housing units are vacant, above the Utah rate of 8.1%, and down from 56.1% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 90% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 4.5% of the vacant stock, or 2.1% of all housing units against the 46.2% headline vacancy rate. Absorbable supply for an incoming employer is thin, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $39,949 can pay without cost burden (~$999/mo), and 33.7% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 12.6% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 25.5% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 55.9% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 10.3% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Short commutes: 15.5-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 Kane County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Kane County shows strong potential for accommodation attraction, with a 14.89x concentration and 702 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 25.5% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Visitor economy accounts for 70.1% of it, with accommodation the largest single sub-sector at 52.1%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.