Manufacturing Cities 2015 (US)
I was looking at numbers for employment in manufacturing. Some of them were expected but some were surprising. These are for United States MSAs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
http://www.bls.gov/sae/tables.htm Total jobs in manufacturing: Los Angeles 521,600 Chicago 414,100 New York 368,100 Dallas 263,000 Houston 246,900 Detroit 229,200 Minneapolis 194,200 Boston 191,900 Seattle 188,000 Philadelphia 181,300 San Jose 161,600 Atlanta 157,700 San Francisco 126,400 Cleveland 124,700 Portland 121,800 Milwaukee 121,000 Phoenix 119,000 St Louis 114,000 Cincinnati 113,300 San Diego 105,300 Charlotte 104,100 Grand Rapids 103,300 Riverside 95,600 Indianapolis 90,300 Pittsburgh 87,600 Miami 84,200 Nashville 79,100 Kansas City 74,200 Columbus 71,500 Denver 68,100 Tampa 61,900 Austin 57,600 Hartford 55,600 Salt Lake City 55,100 Baltimore 54,100 Virginia Beach - Norfolk 53,500 Washington DC 52,800 Buffalo 52,000 Providence 51,800 San Antonio 46,900 Memphis 45,200 Orlando 41,300 Oklahoma City 37,600 Sacramento 36,300 Raleigh 33,900 Richmond 30,800 New Orleans 30,600 Las Vegas 21,600 Manufacturing jobs as a percentage of all jobs: Grand Rapids 19.59% San Jose 15.50% Milwaukee 14.17% Cleveland 11.93% Detroit 11.84% Portland 10.96% Cincinnati 10.69% Minneapolis 10.06% Seattle 9.94% Hartford 9.78% Charlotte 9.42% Buffalo 9.36% Chicago 9.03% Providence 9.01% Los Angeles 8.96% Indianapolis 8.88% Nashville 8.67% St Louis 8.48% Houston 8.26% Salt Lake City 8.15% Dallas 7.74% San Diego 7.60% Pittsburgh 7.54% Boston 7.25% Memphis 7.22% Kansas City 7.12% Riverside 7.10% Virginia Beach - Norfolk 6.99% Columbus 6.88% Philadelphia 6.43% Phoenix 6.25% Atlanta 6.10% Austin 6.00% Oklahoma City 5.97% Raleigh 5.83% San Francisco 5.59% New Orleans 5.34% Tampa 4.95% Denver 4.88% San Antonio 4.78% Richmond 4.73% Jacksonville 4.55% Baltimore 3.96% Sacramento 3.96% New York City 3.94% Orlando 3.57% Miami 3.36% Las Vegas 2.36% Washington DC 1.66% I would be interested in seeing comparable figures for metros in other countries. |
Interesting stuff. Looks like there's still a lot of high-tech manufacturing in San Jose after all?
I would have thought KC would be higher, this is still a pretty blue-collar town. |
BTW, for those wondering where a lot of these manufacturing jobs are coming from when it doesn't seem obvious from looking at your city, most big cities have a lot of "hidden" manufacturing tucked away in some of the most unlikely places. Much of it, I might add, is probably not what you'd think of as "manufacturing." For example, many years ago I did a temp job at a company in Pioneer Square in Seattle, 2nd floor of one of the old buildings. They made some sort of health formula (I forget exactly what it was, it was stuff that looked like Metamucil or some sort of protein powder but it did ... I forget what). Anyway, they had some machinery in this one room that poured the different ingredients together in various combinations into the containers, then mixed it up and sealed the packaging. Technically speaking, that's manufacturing (food processing, in this case). It was taking some raw materials and putting them together into a finished product.
I suspect a lot of the "manufacturing" in the jobs listed above is stuff like that, in addition to the more traditional kinds of manufacturing. Another thing I learned several years ago, last time I bought a mattress ... All mattresses are made locally. For various reasons it's not worth it to ship mattresses long distance. So, every metro area has a bunch of mattress factories. The last one I bought in Seattle was made here, and there is another one nearby here. Close to my new locale there is one here I pass on the way to and from work every day. |
Pittsburgh lost 200,000 jobs in about a 5 year time frame during the catastrophic collapse of the American steel industry in the 1980's with 1984 being the worst year. There was no economic bailout that was afforded to save the US auto industry or banking system years later.
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Interesting, for Canada it would be.
Toronto: 293,790 Montreal: 213,665 Vancouver: 81,645 Kitchener: 49,225 Edmonton: 44,620 Hamilton: 43,475 Calgary: 41,835 Winnipeg: 36,345 Quebec: 30,935 London: 28,620 Windsor: 27,820 Ottawa: 21,345 St. Catharines: 19,245 Oshawa: 18,615 Sherbrooke: 13,000 Halifax: 10,285 Saskatoon: 9,875 Victoria: 6,065 Regina: 6,060 St. John's: 4,375 Kitchener: 18.40% Windsor: 18.06% Sherbrooke: 12.57% Hamilton: 11.48% London: 11.29% Montreal: 10.39% Toronto: 9.66% St. Catharines: 9.62% Oshawa: 9.59% Winnipeg: 8.96% Quebec: 7.24% Edmonton: 6.52% Saskatoon: 6.51% Vancouver: 6.41% Calgary: 5.76% Regina: 4.91% Halifax: 4.28% St. John's: 4.00% Ottawa: 3.44% Victoria: 3.19% I'm a little surprised at how little there is in Baltimore and how high Seattle and Charlotte ranked. Grand Rapids is a bit surprising too, given it's a state capital, I would've expected to have a lower % manufacturing than other Great Lakes cities with fewer government jobs. Admittedly the smaller Great Lakes cities weren't included, maybe the percentages are higher for Toledo, Dayton, Lansing, South Bend, Peoria, etc... |
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Grand Rapids has a ton of auto suppliers, and is very big in the furniture manufacturing industry, especially office furniture (Steelcase and the like). I don't think most people think of LA as a manufacturing town, but look at those huge numbers. LA has more than twice the % of workers employed in manufacturing as NYC. By CSA LA probably has twice the overall manufacturing workers as NYC, despite being considerably smaller. |
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milwaukee is a major specialty/precision niche mfg hub, which is interesting. Quote:
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Re: Canada. KW is much higher than I would have suspected, especially given the very strong high-tech and education service sectors in that city. London has been decimated over the past decade.
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Smaller Ontario communities. Manufacturing is very important to the economy of SW Ontario, and it seems especially the smaller cities/towns. There's other smaller towns that will break the 20% mark too.
Leamington is pretty impressive when you consider that the 2nd biggest industry is agriculture, so manufacturing is a pretty big deal for the urban economy there, although the closure of the Heinz plant is going to hurt its numbers. Timmins and Sudbury are major mining towns, so that's the main source of blue collar jobs there. Not sure about Thunder Bay and North Bay, I guess they could be described as service hubs for northern Ontario since the resource sector isn't that big in those cities. Woodstock: 24.55% Guelph: 18.99% Stratford: 18.48% Midland: 17.82% Leamington: 17.69% Brantford: 16.31% Norfolk: 15.95% Brockville: 13.01% Cornwall: 12.39% Sarnia: 11.82% Chatham-Kent: 11.78% Sault Ste Marie: 11.38% Belleville: 11.31% Owen Sound: 10.79% Barrie: 10.59% Kawartha Lakes: 8.52% Peterborough: 8.52% Orillia: 6.81% Thunder Bay: 4.75% Kingston: 4.73% North Bay: 4.05% Sudbury: 3.93% Timmins: 2.28% Guelph: 15,220 Brantford: 11,545 Barrie: 10,925 Chatham-Kent: 5,995 Belleville: 5,260 Sarnia: 5,190 Peterborough: 5,140 Norfolk: 5,065 Woodstock: 4,825 Sault Ste Marie: 4,560 Leamington: 4,020 Kingston: 4,000 Cornwall: 3,425 Sudbury: 3,295 Stratford: 3,165 Kawartha Lakes: 3,080 Midland: 3,065 Thunder Bay: 2,975 Brockville: 2,585 Owen Sound: 1,755 Orillia: 1,355 North Bay: 1,350 Timmins: 520 |
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Blackberry had pretty substantial manufacturing employment in KW, much of which has been lost. Kitchener also lost the Schneiders meat-packing plant. But you still have Cambridge Toyota, as well as a lot of smaller manufacturers of various auto-parts, and a large variety of other manufacturers. Smaller tech companies might have some local manufacturing, especially if they're more on the hardware side, making various instruments and devices. Being big in STEM and being big on manufacturing can go hand in hand. |
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I'm about to manufacture some whipass if somebody doesn't post comparable figures from 30 years ago
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BTW, when I get home tonight I think I'm going to map chef's data (and maybe add some more cities from his link). Just for the heck of it.
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LA doesn't really surprise me, the numbers are higher than many other big cities, but not that high (%s) compared to midsized ones. I guess the LA most people are familiar with is Hollywood and West/Central LA but all you need to do is look at an aerial to see there's plenty of warehouses and manufacturing in the other parts of LA. Anyways, there are a few small cities that are able to edge out Grand Rapids. #1 that I found and get ready because it's pretty crazy... Elkhart-Goshen: 46.49% (60,600) Generally the highest numbers seem to be in the Great Lakes region. I haven't found anything close to Elkhart, but there's a few that have higher %s than Grand Rapids. Outside the Great Lakes, Hickory-Lenoir, Spartanburg, Kingsport-Bristol, Fort Smith and Wichita have high rates of manufacturing employment as well, so the south has a decent amount of manufacturing too. |
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There's nothing quite like the Inland Empire, though. Ontario is practically a sea of warehouses. |
Very interesting. São Paulo metro area manufacturing registered jobs (Dec 2014): 1,116,991.
São Paulo is losing lots of manufacturing jobs for other metro areas around it: Campinas, Jundiaí, Sorocaba, Piracicaba, São José dos Campos, etc. Together, they form the macrometropolitan area, concentrating over 80% of the manufacturing jobs in the state (2,734,154) and about 1/3 of the country (8,171,022). |
Haven't found any for UK cities/metros yet but here are figures by region...
http://s33.postimg.org/vmyzwy7bj/wp_...523_0001_2.png And nationally the sectors they are in.. http://s33.postimg.org/ro1se4iof/wp_...523_0002_2.png There are a few small towns that might make 25-30% of jobs in manufacturing, maybe a bit more, for the larger cities I doubt many are above 10-12%. |
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