Wasatch County, Utah

• 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 15.6 pts, supports knowledge-economy and tech attraction.

• Largest sector: Construction employs 2,136 workers (24.4% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $80,970.
• Economic scale: Regional GDP of $1.9B (2024).
• Wage stratification: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services averages $96,687 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $27,301, a 3.5x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Construction of Buildings concentrates at 4.88x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, suggesting an interconnected industrial base rather than reliance on a single employer or sector.
• Attraction whitespace: 6 sub-sectors register LQ < 0.5, candidates for diversification or recruitment depending on labor-market fit.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 6.7x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 80.3% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 20.6% 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 (~$2,940/mo), a clear cost-of-living advantage for workforce attraction.

• Short commutes: 21.6-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.

Wasatch County shows meaningful potential for construction of buildings attraction, with a 4.88x concentration and 734 jobs in this sub-sector.

The interconnected base across construction of buildings, heavy and civil engineering construction, and specialty trade contractors creates supply-chain attraction leverage rather than single-employer risk, a structural advantage for industrial recruitment.