Uinta 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 $82,980 is worth $89,515 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 12.8 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,166 workers (21.8% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $31,794. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 2,143 and is counted separately.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.1B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $77,809 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $19,172, a 4.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Pipeline Transportation concentrates at 20.18x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 9 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 31% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. 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 3.5x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 76.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 13.3% of housing units are vacant, above the Wyoming rate of 12.2%, and down from 16% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 28% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 13.9% of the vacant stock, or 1.9% of all housing units against the 13.3% 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: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $39,634 can pay without cost burden (~$991/mo), and 29% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Healthy participation: 64.3% labor force participation reflects a steady, available local workforce.
• Short commutes: 20.4-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Uinta County per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Uinta County shows strong potential for pipeline transportation attraction, with a 20.18x concentration and 51 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans pipeline transportation, heavy and civil engineering construction, and gasoline stations and fuel dealers, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 31% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.