Dallam County, Texas

• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 23.8 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 30 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest sector: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting employs 1,391 workers (39.3% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $51,453.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $87,172 while Administrative and Support and Waste Management averages $41,997, a 2.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 123.70x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 8 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 7 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Affordable market: Home value to income ratio of 2.1x is well below the ~4.1x national average; supports talent attraction and family settlement narratives.
• Elevated vacancy: 15.3% vacancy rate. In resort, rural, and seasonal markets much of this is recreational/seasonal (second homes), not available supply; confirm the vacancy-by-reason split before treating it as a redevelopment opportunity.
• Broadly affordable rents: All 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom tiers sit below the 30%-of-median-income affordability threshold (~$1,788/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Strong participation: 75.7% labor force participation among working-age residents indicates an engaged, available workforce.
• Short commutes: 15.1-minute mean commute is a quality-of-life and labor-access advantage worth surfacing for site selectors.
• Talent pipeline: 6 regional institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 48,998 annual credentials.

Dallam County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 123.70x concentration and 1,026 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across animal production and aquaculture, crop production, and merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.