Jasper County, Georgia

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Elevated poverty: At 16%, 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 16.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 42 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest sector: Retail Trade employs 260 workers (19.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $22,433.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $433M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $68,772 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $20,029, a 3.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 16.19x 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, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 4 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 85.6% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers fall below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,503/mo); workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 24.5% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Talent pipeline: 6 regional institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 31,835 annual credentials.

Jasper County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 16.19x concentration and 69 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 24.5% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across animal production and aquaculture, plastics and rubber products manufacturing, and gasoline stations and fuel dealers creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.