Jack County, Texas

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 21.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest sector: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction employs 215 workers (25.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $82,968.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $468M (2024).
• Wage stratification: Utilities averages $182,645 while Real Estate and Rental and Leasing averages $29,763, a 6.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Support Activities for Mining concentrates at 41.42x 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: 4 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 3.7x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 72.2% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 21.6% 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 (~$1,702/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Low participation: 50.2% labor force participation suggests untapped capacity; workforce development programs may unlock supply.
• Talent pipeline: 6 regional institutions feed the workforce; the top three combined produce 48,998 annual credentials.

Jack County shows strong potential for support activities for mining attraction, with a 41.42x concentration and 155 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The interconnected base across support activities for mining, oil and gas extraction, and pipeline transportation creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.