Economics — localized baseline

What Wood 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	125,295
2015	128,885
2020	130,662
2023	131,795

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	61,219
2015	63,202
2016	65,646
2017	66,704
2018	66,051
2019	67,860
2020	64,239
2021	66,989
2022	72,022
2023	74,864
2024	75,922

Total covered employment grew 24.0% (61,219 → 75,922) 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 $56,557 (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
31-33 · Manufacturing	14,485	200	$70,869	2.32 · exports
48-49 · Transportation & Warehousing	11,569	177	$44,040	3.60 · exports
72 · Accommodation & Food Services	7,087	328	$19,781	1.03
44-45 · Retail Trade	6,210	353	$32,882	0.82 · imports
62 · Health Care & Social Assistance	6,168	307	$56,466	0.57 · imports
23 · Construction	4,611	258	$93,645	1.16
42 · Wholesale Trade	3,333	228	$72,528	1.11
81 · Other Services (except Public Administration)	2,409	282	$44,508	1.05
56 · Administrative & Support & Waste Management	2,398	192	$46,198	0.54 · imports
54 · Professional, Scientific & Technical Services	1,868	337	$72,729	0.35 · imports
52 · Finance & Insurance	1,173	199	$74,768	0.38 · imports
51 · Information	1,108	82	$70,677	0.78 · imports
55 · Management of Companies & Enterprises	804	32	$173,941	0.63 · imports
61 · Educational Services	770	57	$24,849	0.49 · imports
53 · Real Estate & Rental & Leasing	678	132	$53,217	0.58 · imports
71 · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation	536	55	$20,585	0.42 · imports
11 · Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting	395	32	$66,022	0.64 · imports
22 · Utilities	264	12	$112,184	0.91 · imports
21 · Mining, Quarrying, Oil & Gas Extraction	78	6	$86,631	0.27 · imports
99 · Unclassified	4	2	$20,974	0.04 · 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 193 jobs at $69,789 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	193	28	$69,789	0.13 · imports
State Government	2,807	17	$76,425	1.19
Local Government	6,974	159	$53,803	0.98 · imports

Private sectors (65,948) + government (9,974) reconcile to the 75,922 all-ownership total .

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 ($73,124/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	2.44%
Natural gas (heated home)	$970	1.33%
Combined	$2,750	3.76%

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.