QuadranacA North American Statistical Almanac

Home › Rankings

Heavy engineering share of construction jobs: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Heavy and civil engineering share of construction jobs (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Construction industry jobs and pay by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

Licence
Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-11-10
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 23, 236, 237, 238 and 00 (all sectors)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 13.7 (United States).

Washington: 10.1Idaho: 8.5Montana: 13.1North Dakota: 16.1Minnesota: 19.6Michigan: 10.7Ohio: 11.7Pennsylvania: 13.2New York: 8.1Vermont: 9New Hampshire: 9.6Maine: 11.1Arizona: 11.9California: 9.2New Mexico: 17Texas: 22.5Louisiana: 40.3Mississippi: 28.1Alabama: 16.2Florida: 11.3Georgia: 14.4South Carolina: 15.4North Carolina: 15.9Virginia: 13.9District of Columbia: 18.6Maryland: 8.5Delaware: 12.4New Jersey: 12.9Connecticut: 9Rhode Island: 6.6Massachusetts: 8Oregon: 7.1Utah: 9.8Wyoming: 14.9Nevada: 7.7Colorado: 19.3South Dakota: 14.9Nebraska: 12.6Kansas: 18.1Oklahoma: 21Iowa: 8.8Missouri: 13.7Wisconsin: 12.2Illinois: 12.9Kentucky: 15Arkansas: 12.1Tennessee: 12.3West Virginia: 20.3Indiana: 12.1Alaska: 18.1Hawaii: 9

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 6.6 to 9 %
  • Group 2: 9 to 12.1 %
  • Group 3: 12.1 to 13.7 %
  • Group 4: 13.7 to 17 %
  • Highest: 17 to 40.3 %
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: County Business Patterns counts employer establishments only; states' values for small subsectors may be withheld (blank) to avoid disclosing individual businesses.

1Louisiana40.3
2Mississippi28.1
3Texas22.5
4Oklahoma21
5West Virginia20.3
6Minnesota19.6
7Colorado19.3
8District of Columbia18.6
9Alaska18.1
9Kansas18.1
11New Mexico17
12Alabama16.2
13North Dakota16.1
14North Carolina15.9
15South Carolina15.4
16Kentucky15
17South Dakota14.9
17Wyoming14.9
19Georgia14.4
20Virginia13.9
21Missouri13.7
22Pennsylvania13.2
23Montana13.1
24Illinois12.9
24New Jersey12.9
26Nebraska12.6
27Delaware12.4
28Tennessee12.3
29Wisconsin12.2
30Arkansas12.1
30Indiana12.1
32Arizona11.9
33Ohio11.7
34Florida11.3
35Maine11.1
36Michigan10.7
37Washington10.1
38Utah9.8
39New Hampshire9.6
40California9.2
41Connecticut9
41Hawaii9
41Vermont9
44Iowa8.8
45Idaho8.5
45Maryland8.5
47New York8.1
48Massachusetts8
49Nevada7.7
50Oregon7.1
51Rhode Island6.6

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 23, 236, 237, 238 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by heavy and civil engineering share of construction jobs (%, derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sector 23 (construction) and subsectors 236, 237, 238; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-heavy-and-civil-engineering-share-of-construction-jobs/

Download source table CSV All rankings