Crook County, Wyoming

• Income near the national median: Median household income tracks the national median, indicating a broad-based consumer market.
• Cost of living stretches income further: Local prices run 7.3% below the national average, so the nominal median of $79,637 is worth $85,908 at national average prices. BEA publishes price parity at state level, not county level.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 11.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 44 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 379 workers (22.3% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $80,326. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 698 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $458M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $102,473 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $21,497, a 4.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Mining (except Oil and Gas) concentrates at 106.06x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 8 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 39.1% 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.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.6x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 78.1% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 21.1% of housing units are vacant, above the Wyoming rate of 12.2%, and up from 20.2% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 47.1% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 14% of the vacant stock, or 3% of all housing units against the 21.1% 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.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes shown above sit below what a household on the median renter income of $75,313 can pay without cost burden (~$1,883/mo), and 14.4% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened; a cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Succession risk is real: 29.3% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Healthy participation: 63.6% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Crook County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Crook County shows strong potential for mining (except oil and gas) attraction, with a 106.06x concentration and 307 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 29.3% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans mining (except oil and gas), animal production and aquaculture, and gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 39.1% of the employment across them, the largest being resource and agricultural commodities. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.