Chester County, Pennsylvania

• Income premium: Households earn well above the national median, supporting strong retail and housing markets.
• Talent advantage: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment exceeds the national average by 21.4 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.

• Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 36,197 workers (19.3% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $64,144.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $60.2B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Management of Companies and Enterprises averages $213,246 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $26,895, a 7.9x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Securities, Commodity Contracts, Investments concentrates at 8.66x 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 3.8x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 75.1% 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 (~$3,180/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 local institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 26,659 annual credentials.

Chester County shows strong potential for securities, commodity contracts, investments attraction, with a 8.66x concentration and 15,561 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 securities, commodity contracts, investments, crop production, and museums, historical sites, and similar creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.