Greensville County, Virginia

• 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 $38,502 (41.3%) under the Virginia median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 14.3%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 21.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 560 workers (46.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $64,627. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,317 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Administrative and Support and Waste Management averages $89,741 while Retail Trade averages $34,687, a 2.6x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Forestry and Logging concentrates at 89.50x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.9x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Elevated vacancy: 20.5% of housing units are vacant, above the Virginia rate of 8.7%, and up from 13% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 71.1% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 19.6%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 4.7% of the vacant stock, or 1% of all housing units against the 20.5% 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: 2 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $37,721 can pay without cost burden (~$943/mo), and 43.6% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 41.1% labor force participation. The labor force itself fell 1.7% between 2019 and 2024, from 4,099 to 4,028.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Greensville County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Greensville County shows strong potential for forestry and logging attraction, with a 89.50x concentration and 63 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.