Economics — localized baseline

What Allen County, Ohio's economy actually is, quantitatively — the ground the data-center deal sits on. Employment by industry for 2024 (BLS QCEW) with each sector's location quotient (county share ÷ national share), and population (US Census ACS). The employment and population figures are connector-sourced [verified], with each sector's location quotient derived from them; the prose companion is Economics — demand & public benefits.

Population

Year	Population
2010	106,586
2015	105,196
2020	102,808
2023	101,685

Employment trend

Line · covered employment Total covered employment

[verified] BLS QCEW annual averages

Line · establishments Establishments

[verified] BLS QCEW annual averages

Year	Total covered employment
2014	49,814
2015	50,014
2016	50,406
2017	50,931
2018	50,828
2019	50,165
2020	47,761
2021	48,379
2022	49,136
2023	49,577
2024	49,690

Total covered employment shrank 0.2% (49,814 → 49,690) between 2014 and 2024 — the labor base the campus's ~50 promised jobs join.

Industry mix & export-orientation

Employment by NAICS sector, 2024, ranked by jobs. County-wide average annual pay is $58,790 (BLS QCEW, all ownerships) — the prevailing-wage yardstick the campus's ~50 promised jobs are measured against.

Sector	Jobs	Establishments	Avg annual pay	Location quotient
62 · Health Care & Social Assistance	9,452	325	$60,348	1.33 · exports
31-33 · Manufacturing	8,779	131	$92,093	2.15 · exports
44-45 · Retail Trade	5,261	380	$34,262	1.06
72 · Accommodation & Food Services	4,737	240	$20,846	1.05
56 · Administrative & Support & Waste Management	3,263	140	$52,429	1.12
42 · Wholesale Trade	2,386	138	$66,162	1.22
23 · Construction	2,056	212	$70,217	0.79 · imports
81 · Other Services (except Public Administration)	1,613	240	$36,657	1.08
54 · Professional, Scientific & Technical Services	1,583	189	$74,796	0.46 · imports
48-49 · Transportation & Warehousing	1,158	85	$61,361	0.55 · imports
61 · Educational Services	955	26	$34,855	0.93 · imports
52 · Finance & Insurance	887	134	$70,088	0.44 · imports
71 · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation	545	38	$20,308	0.65 · imports
55 · Management of Companies & Enterprises	316	20	$88,987	0.38 · imports
53 · Real Estate & Rental & Leasing	252	86	$42,132	0.33 · imports
22 · Utilities	123	8	$110,425	0.65 · imports
11 · Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting	0	22	—	0.00 · imports
21 · Mining, Quarrying, Oil & Gas Extraction	0	3	—	0.00 · imports
51 · Information	0	32	—	0.00 · imports
99 · 99	0	2	—	0.00 · imports

Government employment — outside the private sector mix

The industry table above is private-ownership employment (BLS QCEW). Federal, state and local government carry no NAICS sector of their own, so they appear in no row above — yet the county total counts them. Federal civilian employment alone is 321 jobs at $83,773 average pay; at a federal enclave it is the county's single largest employer with no page of its own.

Ownership	Jobs	Establishments	Avg annual pay	Location quotient
Federal Government	321	15	$83,773	0.33 · imports
State Government	888	16	$84,761	0.57 · imports
Local Government	4,536	105	$53,722	0.97 · imports

Private sectors (43,366) + government (5,745) reconcile to the 49,690 all-ownership total — the 579-job residual is unclassified or suppressed private employment.

BLS QCEW counts UI-covered (private, state, local) plus federal-civilian (UCFE) employment. Uniformed active-duty military is excluded — it appears in neither the county total nor any ownership row — so at a federal enclave the covered total understates the base's real employment footprint beyond even the federal-civilian jobs shown here.

Employment from BLS QCEW (keyless open data). Location quotient = county sector share / national share (export-orientation; the county-level proxy for an import/export ratio). Population from US Census ACS 5-year (B01003). Median household income from US Census ACS 5-year (B19013, 2023).

Consumer energy costs

What households in Ohio pay for electricity and heating fuel — the consumer-price half of the demand thread the data-center load presses on. State-level EIA residential prices and retail sales, each connector-sourced [verified], charted over the last ~quarter-century (the natural-gas series reaches back to 1967, but the window is trimmed for legibility). Prices are in native units — electricity in cents/kWh, gas in $/Mcf, sales in million kWh.

Line · residential ¢/kWh Residential electricity price

[verified] EIA API v2 · ELEC.PRICE.OH-RES.A

Line · residential $/Mcf Residential natural-gas price

[verified] EIA API v2 · NG.N3010OH3.A

Line · retail sales (million kWh) Electricity retail sales — all sectors

[verified] EIA API v2 · ELEC.SALES.OH-ALL.A

EIA API v2 (seriesid route): residential electricity + natural-gas prices and total electricity retail sales for Ohio. Annual averages; regenerable via `watermark eia` with WATERMARK_EIA_API_KEY.

Household energy burden

What that energy costs a typical household: the share of Ohio's median household income ($62,001/yr, US Census B19013) spent on residential electricity and heating. A fully [derived] figure — annual spend = average household use × the EIA residential price — unlike the stylized demand→price band. The gas and combined rows assume a gas-heated home at average use.

Fuel	Annual cost	Burden (% of income)
Electricity	$1,781	2.87%
Natural gas (heated home)	$970	1.56%
Combined	$2,750	4.44%

Median household income is county-level (Census B19013); residential energy prices are state averages (EIA) — the burden mixes a county denominator with state prices.
The gas and combined burdens assume a gas-heated home at average use; a home heating with electricity or another fuel carries no gas burden.
Household electricity/gas use are national-average assumptions — actual use varies with climate, home size, and efficiency.