Sevier County, Utah

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $20,282 (21.3%) 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 12.9 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,513 workers (25.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $33,060. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,945 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.7B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction averages $88,151 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $18,305, a 4.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Mining (except Oil and Gas) concentrates at 59.55x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 12 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 40.6% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. 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 4.2x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 77.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 15% of housing units are vacant, above the Utah rate of 8.1%, and down from 16.5% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 48.8% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 11.4% of the vacant stock, or 1.7% of all housing units against the 15% 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: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $46,094 can pay without cost burden (~$1,152/mo), and 36% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 60.3% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 17.4-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 Sevier County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Sevier County shows strong potential for mining (except oil and gas) attraction, with a 59.55x concentration and 674 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans mining (except oil and gas), truck transportation, and animal production and aquaculture, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 40.6% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.