Industry · NAICS 31-33

Manufacturing

The United States has 284,452 employer establishments in manufacturing (8.4 per 10,000 residents), employing 12,335,234 people at an average annual pay of $73,202, plus 421,812 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
284,452
421,812 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
8.4
Paid employees
12,335,234
Average annual pay
$73,202

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
Manufacturing by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Jacksonville, NC210,955514,1362.40.29×1,236$47,320139
2Laredo, TX271,942753,6262.80.33×996$41,034399
3Fayetteville, NC392,3451133,4722.90.34×8,693$62,741280
4Lexington Park, MD209,995673,1343.20.38×657$57,852271
5Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV6,328,7302,0693,0593.30.39×51,728$80,8705,264
6Wildwood-The Villages, FL151,889512,9783.40.40×1,385$74,968117
7McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX901,0963142,8703.50.41×6,602$46,8522,027
8Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ124,716442,8343.50.42×595$46,953164
9Tallahassee, FL394,5511432,7593.60.43×3,202$65,383355
10El Centro, CA180,683672,6973.70.44×2,377$54,456221
11Show Low, AZ109,197412,6633.80.44×403$59,700157
12Punta Gorda, FL206,814792,6183.80.45×511$56,781215
13Warner Robins, GA200,730772,6073.80.45×7,935$52,942242
14Hanford-Corcoran, CA153,197602,5533.90.46×6,131$57,514100
15Lawton, OK127,338502,5473.90.46×3,864$64,161109
16Merced, CA294,3191162,5373.90.47×9,282$63,396216
17Yuma, AZ214,228862,49140.48×4,457$42,426210
18Brownsville-Harlingen, TX428,9061762,4374.10.49×6,642$80,618789
19Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL532,4602202,4204.10.49×6,044$72,385477
20Homosassa Springs, FL166,667692,4154.10.49×386$52,145188
21Killeen-Temple, TX502,4972142,3484.30.50×8,164$56,762489
22Urban Honolulu, HI989,6984332,2864.40.52×7,342$54,1461,045
23Bakersfield-Delano, CA917,5994022,2834.40.52×14,857$74,601965
24Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL306,2961382,2204.50.53×2,034$68,748311
25Goldsboro, NC119,731542,2174.50.53×5,167$56,436117

1–25 of 398 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 $232.2B on contracts under NAICS 31-33 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (2,429,343 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$40.4B17%
    77,773 awards
  2. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$10.6B4.6%
    54,990 awards
  3. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$9.8B4.2%
    73,608 awards
  4. Tucson, AZ$9.1B3.9%
    2,286 awards
  5. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$8.5B3.7%
    69,939 awards
  6. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD$8.3B3.6%
    121,811 awards
  7. Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC$6.6B2.9%
    59,465 awards
  8. St. Louis, MO-IL$6B2.6%
    7,454 awards
  9. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$5.8B2.5%
    16,573 awards
  10. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX$5.8B2.5%
    45,377 awards

Counties

  1. Dallas County, TX$25.8B11%
    57,098 awards
  2. Tarrant County, TX$12.4B5.3%
    17,586 awards
  3. King County, WA$9.5B4.1%
    61,927 awards
  4. Pima County, AZ$9.1B3.9%
    2,286 awards
  5. St. Louis County, MO$5.9B2.5%
    3,953 awards
  6. San Diego County, CA$5.8B2.5%
    16,573 awards
  7. Essex County, MA$4.7B2.0%
    1,187 awards
  8. Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT$4.5B1.9%
    567 awards
  9. Brevard County, FL$4.4B1.9%
    2,535 awards
  10. Montgomery County, PA$4B1.7%
    90,881 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Irving city, TX$12.3B5.3%
    5,961 awards
  2. Grand Prairie city, TX$9.8B4.2%
    1,426 awards
  3. Seattle city, WA$7.8B3.4%
    59,134 awards
  4. Fort Worth city, TX$6B2.6%
    15,444 awards
  5. Tucson city, AZ$5.1B2.2%
    1,665 awards
  6. San Diego city, CA$4.4B1.9%
    11,943 awards
  7. Dallas city, TX$3.8B1.6%
    4,629 awards
  8. Pascagoula city, MS$3.6B1.6%
    113 awards
  9. Berkeley city, MO$3.4B1.5%
    2,889 awards
  10. Arlington CDP, VA$3.3B1.4%
    411 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)