Large Cities Manufacturing Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

The methodology for the 2013 rankings for best cities for manufacturing jobs parallels that used for our 2013 Best Cities for Job Growth rankings.  Instead of using Total Nonfarm Employment, the manufacturing rankings use employment in manufacturing (supersector 30) in the BLS MSA employment data.  The manufacturing rankings include the 357 MSAs for which there are sectoral employment data for all 12 years used in our analysis. 



2013  Mfg Rank - Large MSAs Area 2013 Weighted MFG INDEX 2012 MFG Employment (1000s) 2012  Mfg Rank - Large MSAs 2013 Mfg Rank Change from 2012
1 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 87.1         248.3 4 3
2 Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN 82.2           72.5 47 45
3 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metropolitan Division 80.4         169.9 1 (2)
4 Oklahoma City, OK 79.1           35.6 2 (2)
5 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metropolitan Division 77.2         143.3 5 0
6 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 75.7           70.4 48 42
7 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 75.4           55.1 33 26
8 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Division 71.0           80.4 24 16
9 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Division 70.1           92.8 9 0
10 Salt Lake City, UT 67.8           55.7 3 (7)
11 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 64.9           47.0 7 (4)
12 Birmingham-Hoover, AL 64.5           37.5 46 34
13 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC 64.3           71.0 22 9
14 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 59.5         119.5 10 (4)
15 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 59.2         181.5 15 0
16 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX 59.2           51.1 8 (8)
17 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metropolitan Division 58.0           26.7 16 (1)
18 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 57.7         156.5 11 (7)
19 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 57.4           31.6 14 (5)
20 Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Metropolitan Division 56.9         158.0 20 0
21 Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ 56.6         117.8 43 22
22 Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO 56.3           63.4 34 12
23 Indianapolis-Carmel, IN 55.3           83.7 50 27
24 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 54.8         114.7 19 (5)
25 Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN 54.7         106.0 6 (19)
26 Pittsburgh, PA 54.1           89.3 28 2
27 Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH 53.9         122.4 18 (9)
28 Columbus, OH 53.0           65.6 21 (7)
29 Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA 52.6           34.1 57 28
30 San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 52.5           93.1 29 (1)
31 Honolulu, HI 52.4           10.8 36 5
32 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 51.6         148.8 25 (7)
33 Raleigh-Cary, NC 51.2           27.2 45 12
34 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL Metropolitan Division 50.9         324.7 26 (8)
35 Nassau-Suffolk, NY Metropolitan Division 49.3           73.4 35 0
36 Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY 49.0           50.9 12 (24)
37 Jacksonville, FL 47.6           28.0 53 16
38 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division 47.2           91.5 23 (15)
39 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA 46.7           56.8 27 (12)
40 Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ 46.5           60.2 17 (23)
41 San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Metropolitan Division 44.9           36.2 37 (4)
42 Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA Metropolitan Division 43.5           79.9 44 2
43 St. Louis, MO-IL 42.0         109.0 31 (12)
44 Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA 41.6           50.8 36 (8)
45 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division 40.9         164.2 30 (15)
46 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metropolitan Division 40.8         362.7 49 3
47 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 40.2           43.7 42 (5)
48 Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 39.0           20.2 51 3
49 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 38.7           37.7 40 (9)
50 Philadelphia City, PA 38.6           23.1 55 5
51 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL Metropolitan Division 37.1           15.2 56 5
52 New York City, NY 35.7           75.2 58 6
53 Edison-New Brunswick, NJ Metropolitan Division 34.0           58.4 64 11
54 Richmond, VA 33.9           31.9 65 11
55 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 33.3           58.9 41 (14)
56 Rochester, NY 32.9           57.9 32 (24)
57 New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA 32.1           29.8 38 (19)
58 Northern Virginia, VA 30.7           21.9 39 (19)
59 Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD Metropolitan Division 30.5           15.8 54 (5)
60 Kansas City, MO 29.6           37.8 13 (47)
61 Putnam-Rockland-Westchester, NY 27.7           24.5 63 2
62 Newark-Union, NJ-PA Metropolitan Division 27.5           63.4 52 (10)
63 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division 26.8           35.0 59 (4)
64 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 25.5           86.4 62 (2)
65 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Division 24.6           32.0 61 (4)
66 Camden, NJ Metropolitan Division 21.9           35.3 60 (6)
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