Rogers County, Oklahoma

• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 9.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Manufacturing employs 6,256 workers (31.2% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $77,893.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $4.9B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $77,893 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $20,725, a 3.8x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing concentrates at 11.63x 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, 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 3.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 77.8% 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 (~$2,002/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Succession risk is real: 22.7% 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 16,669 annual credentials.

Rogers County shows strong potential for fabricated metal product manufacturing attraction, with a 11.63x concentration and 3,310 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.7% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The interconnected base across fabricated metal product manufacturing, machinery manufacturing, and petroleum and coal products manufacturing creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.