Dinwiddie County, Virginia

• 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 $9,466 (10.2%) under the Virginia median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 16.3 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: Transportation and Warehousing employs 3,701 workers (50.5% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $75,104. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 2,418 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $119,629 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $22,925, a 5.2x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Warehousing and Storage concentrates at 31.49x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 4 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 90% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: freight and distribution. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.
• Attraction whitespace: 3 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 3.1x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 79.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 11% of housing units are vacant, above the Virginia rate of 8.7%, and down from 11.5% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 79.9% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 2%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 14.2% of the vacant stock, or 1.6% of all housing units against the 11% 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 $44,013 can pay without cost burden (~$1,100/mo), and 37.9% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 25.9% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 26% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 61.3% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Dinwiddie County awards 140 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Dinwiddie County shows strong potential for warehousing and storage attraction, with a 31.49x concentration and 3,550 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 26% 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. Freight and distribution accounts for 90% of it, all of it in warehousing and storage. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.