Ranking the Manufacturing Cities of the USA

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A list ranking US metropolitan areas by total manufacturing jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You'll find many of the results to be quite shocking.

Total jobs in manufacturing:

  1. Los Angeles 521,600
  2. Chicago 414,100
  3. New York 368,100
  4. Dallas 263,000
  5. Houston 246,900
  6. Detroit 229,200
  7. Minneapolis 194,200
  8. Boston 191,900
  9. Seattle 188,000

  10. Philadelphia 181,300

  11. San Jose 161,600
  12. Atlanta 157,700
  13. San Francisco 126,400
  14. Cleveland 124,700
  15. Portland 121,800
  16. Milwaukee 121,000
  17. Phoenix 119,000
  18. St Louis 114,000
  19. Cincinnati 113,300

  20. San Diego 105,300

  21. Charlotte 104,100
  22. Grand Rapids 103,300
  23. Riverside 95,600
  24. Indianapolis 90,300
  25. Pittsburgh 87,600
  26. Miami 84,200
  27. Nashville 79,100
  28. Kansas City 74,200
  29. Columbus 71,500

  30. Denver 68,100

  31. Tampa 61,900
  32. Austin 57,600
  33. Hartford 55,600
  34. Salt Lake City 55,100
  35. Baltimore 54,100
  36. Virginia Beach - Norfolk 53,500
  37. Washington DC 52,800
  38. Buffalo 52,000
  39. Providence 51,800

  40. San Antonio 46,900

  41. Memphis 45,200
  42. Orlando 41,300
  43. Oklahoma City 37,600
  44. Sacramento 36,300
  45. Raleigh 33,900
  46. Richmond 30,800
  47. New Orleans 30,600
  48. Las Vegas 21,600

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