Uintah 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 $21,420 (22.5%) 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 18.9 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: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 2,357 workers (21.3% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $100,751. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 3,224 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $2.9B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Transportation and Warehousing averages $103,966 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $19,363, a 5.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 62.51x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 15 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.5% of the employment across them, the largest being resource and agricultural commodities. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.
• Attraction whitespace: 4 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5 with at least 50 employed, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 73.5% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 12.2% of housing units are vacant, above the Utah rate of 8.1%, and down from 23.1% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 60.2% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 22.6%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 16.4% of the vacant stock, or 2% of all housing units against the 12.2% 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: 4 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $56,847 can pay without cost burden (~$1,421/mo), and 28.4% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 60.9% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 20.6-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Uintah County awards 668 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Uintah County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 62.51x concentration and 1,565 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans support activities for mining, oil and gas extraction, and mining (except oil and gas), and no single source of demand accounts for more than 35.5% of the employment across them, the largest being resource and agricultural commodities. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.