Millard County, Utah

• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 11.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Young population: Median age of 34 is materially below the U.S. norm, a workforce pipeline asset.

• Largest sector: Retail Trade employs 707 workers (31.5% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $28,965.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.5B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Utilities averages $219,125 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $17,854, a 12.3x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 34.76x 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: 7 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 3.9x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 81.8% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 13.6% 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 (~$1,841/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Short commutes: 17.5-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 68,482 annual credentials.

Millard County shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 34.76x concentration and 326 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

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