Industry · NAICS 336

Transportation equipment manufacturing

The United States has 11,691 employer establishments in transportation equipment manufacturing (0.3 per 10,000 residents), employing 1,682,910 people at an average annual pay of $82,654, plus 16,820 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
11,691
16,820 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
0.3
Paid employees
1,682,910
Average annual pay
$82,654

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
Transportation equipment manufacturing by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Richmond, VA1,354,8176225,80300.13×27$45,11139
2Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV6,328,73034186,1390.10.15×3,714$121,235383
3Raleigh-Cary, NC1,519,67910151,9680.10.19×36$95,61154
4Omaha, NE-IA988,5048123,5630.10.23×894$72,49966
5New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ19,788,976173114,3870.10.25×6,684$85,8791,053
6McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX901,0969100,1220.10.29×653$59,07798
7Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ878,155997,5730.10.30×4,160$54,29184
8Worcester, MA874,225997,1360.10.30×280$68,16434
9Memphis, TN-MS-AR1,342,3861495,8850.10.30×724$52,243108
10Baton Rouge, LA878,5121087,8510.10.33×482$73,65129
11Durham-Chapel Hill, NC609,280787,0400.10.33×2,362$72,12415
12Visalia, CA480,816680,1360.10.36×203$49,73922
13Tallahassee, FL394,551578,9100.10.37×139$56,45311
14Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY707,630978,6260.10.37×106$60,49119
15Wilmington, NC467,617677,9360.10.37×777$81,7129
16Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV2,351,0083175,8390.10.38×315$59,111155
17Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT962,3511374,0270.10.39×7,285$127,60526
18Syracuse, NY653,705972,6340.10.40×2,089$134,15612
19Lubbock, TX360,619572,1240.10.40×37$90,35110
20Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX2,498,8093571,3950.10.40×3,679$231,294109
21Manchester-Nashua, NH427,475671,2460.10.40×279$43,16110
22Urban Honolulu, HI989,6981470,6930.10.41×542$81,07010
23Madison, WI698,1551069,8160.10.41×2,245$60,7713
24Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD2,843,9664169,3650.10.42×2,211$81,23290
25Naples-Marco Island, FL411,435668,5730.10.42×155$83,41940

1–25 of 275 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 $140.7B on contracts under NAICS 336 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (163,530 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$26.5B19%
    4,615 awards
  2. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$9.4B6.7%
    1,781 awards
  3. Tucson, AZ$8B5.7%
    589 awards
  4. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$4.9B3.5%
    1,893 awards
  5. Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC$4.6B3.2%
    1,380 awards
  6. St. Louis, MO-IL$4.4B3.1%
    2,604 awards
  7. Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT$4.4B3.1%
    71 awards
  8. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX$4.4B3.1%
    942 awards
  9. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$4.3B3.1%
    2,807 awards
  10. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL$4B2.8%
    447 awards

Counties

  1. Dallas County, TX$13B9.3%
    449 awards
  2. Tarrant County, TX$11.7B8.3%
    3,553 awards
  3. King County, WA$9.3B6.6%
    765 awards
  4. Pima County, AZ$8B5.7%
    589 awards
  5. San Diego County, CA$4.9B3.5%
    1,893 awards
  6. Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT$4.4B3.1%
    71 awards
  7. St. Louis County, MO$4.4B3.1%
    2,235 awards
  8. Brevard County, FL$4B2.8%
    447 awards
  9. Jackson County, MS$3.6B2.6%
    56 awards
  10. Madison County, AL$3.6B2.6%
    595 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Grand Prairie city, TX$9.8B7.0%
    699 awards
  2. Seattle city, WA$7.7B5.5%
    517 awards
  3. Fort Worth city, TX$5.7B4.1%
    2,731 awards
  4. Tucson city, AZ$4.5B3.2%
    411 awards
  5. San Diego city, CA$3.9B2.8%
    1,648 awards
  6. Pascagoula city, MS$3.6B2.6%
    49 awards
  7. Galveston city, TX$3.3B2.4%
    16 awards
  8. Dallas city, TX$3.3B2.3%
    175 awards
  9. East Hartford CDP, CT$3.2B2.3%
    249 awards
  10. Arlington CDP, VA$3.2B2.3%
    25 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)