Industry · NAICS 332

Fabricated metal product manufacturing

The United States has 53,790 employer establishments in fabricated metal product manufacturing (1.6 per 10,000 residents), employing 1,441,471 people at an average annual pay of $67,129, plus 42,702 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
53,790
42,702 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
1.6
Paid employees
1,441,471
Average annual pay
$67,129

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places
State
Size
Fabricated metal product manufacturing by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Laredo, TX271,942645,3240.20.14×44$53,22723
2Jacksonville, NC210,955542,1910.20.15×16$47,1887
3Urban Honolulu, HI989,6982539,5880.30.16×280$69,63636
4Hilo-Kailua, HI207,476634,5790.30.18×24$56,54227
5Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV6,328,73019532,4550.30.19×4,698$82,384199
6Wildwood-The Villages, FL151,889530,3780.30.21×239$59,3148
7Tallahassee, FL394,5511330,3500.30.21×134$46,85814
8Fayetteville, NC392,3451330,1800.30.21×265$87,1898
9Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC233,683829,2100.30.21×44$56,4559
10Kahului-Wailuku, HI164,104627,3510.40.23×17$73,1765
11Springfield, IL205,971825,7460.40.24×278$63,69815
12Warner Robins, GA200,730825,0910.40.25×121$48,85113
13McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX901,0963625,0300.40.25×760$45,950215
14Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA277,3581223,1130.40.27×128$68,32829
15Watertown-Fort Drum, NY113,280522,6560.40.28×50$51,760—
16Salisbury, MD130,620621,7700.50.29×133$49,94010
17Massena-Ogdensburg, NY106,607521,3210.50.29×204$58,20612
18Punta Gorda, FL206,8141020,6810.50.30×31$49,96814
19Brownsville-Harlingen, TX428,9062120,4240.50.31×748$65,21771
20El Centro, CA180,683920,0760.50.31×144$54,79225
21Iowa City, IA180,295920,0330.50.31×70$55,05716
22Hattiesburg, MS156,109819,5140.50.32×199$53,95011
23Hanford-Corcoran, CA153,197819,1500.50.33×54$51,92614
24Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL532,4602819,0160.50.33×545$56,56941
25Merced, CA294,3191618,3950.50.34×363$68,86224

1–25 of 397 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

  • Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
  • Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
  • This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
  • County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
  • Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $10.8B on contracts under NAICS 332 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (335,396 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Pittsburgh, PA$2.2B20%
    461 awards
  2. St. Louis, MO-IL$1.3B12%
    2,134 awards
  3. Tucson, AZ$1B9.4%
    412 awards
  4. Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA$439.1M4.1%
    65 awards
  5. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$381.3M3.5%
    27,943 awards
  6. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI$326.3M3.0%
    8,594 awards
  7. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$303.7M2.8%
    15,012 awards
  8. Janesville-Beloit, WI$284.7M2.6%
    41 awards
  9. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$271.7M2.5%
    73,138 awards
  10. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD$245.1M2.3%
    11,181 awards

Counties

  1. Allegheny County, PA$2.2B20%
    165 awards
  2. St. Louis County, MO$1.3B12%
    445 awards
  3. Pima County, AZ$1B9.4%
    412 awards
  4. Luzerne County, PA$389.3M3.6%
    26 awards
  5. Rockingham County, NH$315.5M2.9%
    299 awards
  6. Rock County, WI$284.7M2.6%
    41 awards
  7. Hennepin County, MN$211.7M2.0%
    7,909 awards
  8. Los Angeles County, CA$205.4M1.9%
    11,949 awards
  9. Mineral County, WV$185.5M1.7%
    9 awards
  10. Jefferson County, KY$171M1.6%
    708 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Monroeville municipality, PA$2.2B20%
    7 awards
  2. Berkeley city, MO$758.3M7.0%
    180 awards
  3. Tucson city, AZ$554.7M5.1%
    166 awards
  4. Portsmouth city, NH$204.7M1.9%
    277 awards
  5. Plymouth city, MN$200.4M1.9%
    54 awards
  6. Independence city, MO$166.5M1.5%
    13 awards
  7. Woodson Terrace city, MO$115.1M1.1%
    180 awards
  8. Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), KY$112.8M1.0%
    682 awards
  9. Huntsville city, AL$108.2M1.0%
    1,180 awards
  10. Radford city, VA$106.9M1.0%
    12 awards

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)