Industry · NAICS 237

Heavy and civil engineering construction

The United States has 38,612 employer establishments in heavy and civil engineering construction (1.1 per 10,000 residents), employing 1,051,261 people at an average annual pay of $91,313, plus 42,548 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
38,612
42,548 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
1.1
Paid employees
1,051,261
Average annual pay
$91,313

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
Heavy and civil engineering construction by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Bloomington, IL170,931534,1860.30.26×26$111,0007
2Trenton-Princeton, NJ391,3691723,0220.40.38×1,020$107,67621
3San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA1,958,6448922,0070.50.40×2,275$132,77478
4Salinas, CA434,1072120,6720.50.42×390$114,62129
5Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN227,2751120,6610.50.42×591$120,35722
6Gadsden, AL103,227520,6450.50.42×55$130,85522
7Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV2,351,00811420,6230.50.42×5,370$88,961151
8Columbus, GA-AL323,9621620,2480.50.43×637$70,09140
9Wheeling, WV-OH135,690719,3840.50.45×87$105,8854
10Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV305,7891619,1120.50.46×220$74,29521
11Battle Creek, MI133,331719,0470.50.46×72$132,8477
12Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA12,881,90968418,8330.50.46×20,055$123,481755
13Ann Arbor, MI367,8452018,3920.50.47×1,441$107,16330
14Bloomington, IN165,135918,3480.50.48×292$67,78818
15Stockton-Lodi, CA806,0554418,3190.50.48×1,171$113,07844
16El Centro, CA180,6831018,0680.60.48×181$99,21517
17Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY125,061717,8660.60.49×57$82,94714
18Yuma, AZ214,2281217,8520.60.49×218$58,26127
19Johnson City, TN213,3241217,7770.60.49×690$76,25927
20Lumberton, NC118,005716,8580.60.52×158$59,14616
21Modesto, CA554,4593316,8020.60.52×580$117,35531
22Rome, GA100,193616,6990.60.52×63$51,9379
23Salem, OH100,060616,6770.60.52×91$92,82410
24New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ19,788,9761,22616,1410.60.54×35,872$130,5531,483
25Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH815,9075115,9980.60.55×1,231$86,68055

1–25 of 395 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 $15.4B on contracts under NAICS 237 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (5,645 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL$2.1B14%
    43 awards
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$753.8M4.9%
    24 awards
  3. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA$746.5M4.9%
    62 awards
  4. Urban Honolulu, HI$619.9M4.0%
    36 awards
  5. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$601.7M3.9%
    72 awards
  6. New Orleans-Metairie, LA$459.6M3.0%
    44 awards
  7. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$380M2.5%
    53 awards
  8. Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA$330.2M2.1%
    27 awards
  9. Farmington, NM$287.2M1.9%
    15 awards
  10. Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA$261.6M1.7%
    3 awards

Counties

  1. Palm Beach County, FL$2.1B14%
    13 awards
  2. Los Angeles County, CA$745.1M4.8%
    14 awards
  3. Honolulu County, HI$619.9M4.0%
    36 awards
  4. Riverside County, CA$602.1M3.9%
    30 awards
  5. San Diego County, CA$601.7M3.9%
    72 awards
  6. St. John the Baptist Parish, LA$421.7M2.7%
    4 awards
  7. Grayson County, KY$345.3M2.2%
    3 awards
  8. King County, WA$341.6M2.2%
    24 awards
  9. Kitsap County, WA$330.2M2.1%
    27 awards
  10. San Juan County, NM$287.2M1.9%
    15 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Pico Rivera city, CA$731.1M4.8%
    1 award
  2. San Diego city, CA$505.2M3.3%
    28 awards
  3. Bremerton city, WA$290.3M1.9%
    9 awards
  4. Laplace CDP, LA$188.9M1.2%
    3 awards
  5. Portsmouth city, VA$184.1M1.2%
    46 awards
  6. Arlington CDP, VA$163.7M1.1%
    13 awards
  7. Chattanooga city, TN$116.5M0.8%
    3 awards
  8. Anchorage municipality, AK$92.3M0.6%
    24 awards
  9. Concord city, CA$76.5M0.5%
    7 awards
  10. Sacramento city, CA$74.6M0.5%
    10 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)