Manufacturers' News Inc., compiler and publisher of industrial directories for all 50 states, has generated a list of the top U.S. cities by number of manufacturing jobs as of year-end 2010. The full list can be seen below.
According to Manufacturers' News, Houston takes the top spot for industrial employment with 228,226 manufacturing jobs, followed by New York with 139,127 jobs, Chicago with 108,692 and Los Angeles with 83,719. The list shows that five of the top fifty cities are located in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Irvine and Santa Clara), while four of the top fifty are located in Texas (Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin).
Cities that registered notable changes since MNI last compiled the list in August 2008 included Detroit, now at 45th place after falling from 29th place; Seattle, which has moved up to 34th place from 46th place in 2008, and St. Louis, which overtook Cincinnati as the nation's fifth-largest city by industrial employment, and is currently home to 83,123 industrial jobs.
Since August 2008, the nation's top 10 industrial cities have lost a total of 95,805 manufacturing jobs, or 8.4 percent, according to MNI.
MNI's city data includes only establishments located within city limits. Each municipality is counted separately from its suburbs and exurbs.
Manufacturers' News, Inc., publisher of manufacturers' directories since 1912, compiles and produces manufacturing guides, statistics and databases for all 50 states. MNI employs an 85-person editorial staff to scour yellow pages, trade journals, financial reports, and many other sources to pinpoint every manufacturing establishment in the United States. Each manufacturer is contacted throughout the year to update their profiles, including their employee counts.
TOP 50 U.S. CITIES BY NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL JOBS
Source: Manufacturers' News, Inc. December 2010
RANK STATE CITY INDUSTRIAL JOBS
1 TX Houston 228,226
2 NY New York 139,127
3 IL Chicago 108,692
4 CA Los Angeles 83,719
5 MO St. Louis 83,123
6 TX Dallas 81,626
7 OH Cincinnati 81,364
8 IN Indianapolis 79,566
9 AZ Phoenix 77,322
10 CA San Diego 70,709
11 TX Fort Worth 66,650
12 KS Wichita 66,493
13 OH Cleveland 62,114
14 MN Minneapolis 57,668
15 GA Atlanta 57,126
16 WI Milwaukee 55,786
17 TX San Antonio 52,039
18 CA San Jose 51,827
19 KY Louisville 50,312
20 UT Salt Lake City 49,134
21 OR Portland 46,787
22 PA Philadelphia 46,210
23 OH Columbus 46,028
24 OK Tulsa 46,014
25 NY Rochester 45,413
26 TX Austin 43,103
27 MN St. Paul 42,137
28 OK Oklahoma City 41,968
29 CO Denver 41,205
30 MO Kansas City 41,019
31 NC Charlotte 40,727
32 MI Grand Rapids 40,090
33 TN Memphis 39,701
34 WA Seattle 39,449
35 FL Miami 38,599
36 FL Jacksonville 38,225
37 CA Irvine 37,998
38 WA Redmond 37,834
39 CA Santa Clara 37,751
40 MD Baltimore 35,705
41 PA Pittsburgh 35,509
42 FL Orlando 34,040
43 NE Omaha 33,874
44 AL Birmingham 33,334
45 MI Detroit 32,305
46 AZ Tucson 31,672
47 AL Huntsville 31,130
48 VA Richmond 31,071
49 CA Sunnyvale 30,704
50 WA Everett 30,117