Washington 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 $14,534 (15.3%) under the Utah median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 14,390 workers (20.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $57,780. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 10,700 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $11.6B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $74,302 while Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation averages $24,811, a 3.0x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Specialty Trade Contractors concentrates at 2.59x the national norm.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 53.8% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: construction and real estate cycle. 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 6.3x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 71.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 15.1% of housing units are vacant, above the Utah rate of 8.1%, and down from 16.9% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 67% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 21.9% of the vacant stock, or 3.3% of all housing units against the 15.1% 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: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $54,426 can pay without cost burden (~$1,361/mo), and 53.4% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 57.5% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 24.1% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Short commutes: 19.2-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 6 institutions in Washington County award 4,168 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Washington County shows emerging potential for specialty trade contractors attraction, with a 2.59x concentration and 7,989 jobs in this sub-sector.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Construction and real estate cycle accounts for 53.8% of it, with specialty trade contractors the largest single sub-sector at 43.8%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.