St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

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

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 15,669 workers (21.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $57,965.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $17.4B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $108,155 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $22,491, a 4.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Oil and Gas Extraction concentrates at 5.52x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 8 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 3.5x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 78.9% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$2,030/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Succession risk is real: 23.2% 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 16,131 annual credentials.

St. Tammany Parish shows strong potential for oil and gas extraction attraction, with a 5.52x concentration and 405 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 23.2% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across oil and gas extraction, wholesale trade agents and brokers, and scenic and sightseeing transportation creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.