Nebraska

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

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 143,812 workers (20.6% of the tracked sectors), at an average wage of $63,843.
• Economic scale: State GDP of $189.2B (2024).

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 4.94x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy.
• Cluster depth: 7 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.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 3.1x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.

• Short commutes: 19.2-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage for site selectors.

Nebraska shows meaningful potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 4.94x concentration and 8,738 jobs in this sub-sector.

Cluster depth across animal production and aquaculture, food manufacturing, and leather and allied product manufacturing creates supply-chain attraction leverage, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.