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Transportation equipment share of manufacturing: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Transportation equipment share of manufacturing jobs (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Manufacturing jobs, pay and industries by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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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 31-33, 311, 325, 332, 333, 334, 336 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: 13.6 (United States).

Washington: 30.5Idaho: 3.8Montana: 6.3North Dakota: 6.1Minnesota: 4.2Michigan: 29.8Ohio: 16.2Pennsylvania: 6.7New York: 6.9Vermont: 5.7New Hampshire: 5.3Maine: 18.6Arizona: 16.7California: 10.3New Mexico: 2Texas: 10.4Louisiana: 5.9Mississippi: 18.3Alabama: 27.8Florida: 12.4Georgia: 11.7South Carolina: 21.5North Carolina: 8.4Virginia: 19.1District of Columbia: 5.6Maryland: 4.2Delaware: 2.1New Jersey: 1.9Connecticut: 29.5Rhode Island: 2.4Massachusetts: 2.7Oregon: 5.9Utah: 9.3Wyoming: 1.1Nevada: 14.2Colorado: 8.5South Dakota: 8.1Nebraska: 9.1Kansas: 21.4Oklahoma: 8.1Iowa: 6.4Missouri: 17.9Wisconsin: 6.5Illinois: 9.9Kentucky: 27Arkansas: 10Tennessee: 18.6West Virginia: 15.9Indiana: 27.5Alaska: 4.2Hawaii: 5.3

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 1.1 to 5.3 %
  • Group 2: 5.3 to 6.7 %
  • Group 3: 6.7 to 10.3 %
  • Group 4: 10.3 to 18.6 %
  • Highest: 18.6 to 30.5 %
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.

1Washington30.5
2Michigan29.8
3Connecticut29.5
4Alabama27.8
5Indiana27.5
6Kentucky27
7South Carolina21.5
8Kansas21.4
9Virginia19.1
10Maine18.6
10Tennessee18.6
12Mississippi18.3
13Missouri17.9
14Arizona16.7
15Ohio16.2
16West Virginia15.9
17Nevada14.2
18Florida12.4
19Georgia11.7
20Texas10.4
21California10.3
22Arkansas10
23Illinois9.9
24Utah9.3
25Nebraska9.1
26Colorado8.5
27North Carolina8.4
28Oklahoma8.1
28South Dakota8.1
30New York6.9
31Pennsylvania6.7
32Wisconsin6.5
33Iowa6.4
34Montana6.3
35North Dakota6.1
36Louisiana5.9
36Oregon5.9
38Vermont5.7
39District of Columbia5.6
40Hawaii5.3
40New Hampshire5.3
42Alaska4.2
42Maryland4.2
42Minnesota4.2
45Idaho3.8
46Massachusetts2.7
47Rhode Island2.4
48Delaware2.1
49New Mexico2
50New Jersey1.9
51Wyoming1.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 31-33, 311, 325, 332, 333, 334, 336 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by transportation equipment share of manufacturing jobs (%, derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sectors 31-33 (manufacturing) and subsectors 311, 325, 332, 333, 334, 336; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-transportation-equipment-share-of-manufacturing-jobs/

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