Summit County, Utah

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 24.1 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.
• Aging population: Median age of 42 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 7,544 workers (28.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $45,315. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 3,121 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $6.1B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $133,509 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $45,315, a 2.9x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries concentrates at 8.79x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 64.8% 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.
• 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 7.7x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 80.2% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 40.8% of housing units are vacant, above the Utah rate of 8.1%, and down from 49.3% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 85.3% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 9.8% of the vacant stock, or 4% of all housing units against the 40.8% headline vacancy rate. That is the figure to plan an incoming employer's housing against, 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 $91,847 can pay without cost burden (~$2,296/mo), and 32.5% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Succession risk is real: 24.2% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 68.9% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Summit County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Summit County shows strong potential for amusement, gambling, and recreation industries attraction, with a 8.79x concentration and 3,704 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 24.2% 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 64.8% of it, with amusement, gambling, and recreation industries the largest single sub-sector at 31%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.