Idaho

• Broadly in line with U.S. norms across income, poverty, education, and age.

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 125,234 workers (19.6% of the tracked sectors), at an average wage of $58,706.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $129B (2024).

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 7.31x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base across the state.
• Attraction whitespace: 8 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 5.4x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 72.1% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 10.3% vacancy rate; potential redevelopment opportunity.

• Short commutes: 21.6-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage for site selectors.

Idaho shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 7.31x concentration and 11,075 jobs in this sub-sector.

Cluster depth across animal production and aquaculture, forestry and logging, and wood product manufacturing creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.