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Manufacturing Compass

Manufacturing by state

Private-sector manufacturing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Choose a state for its full profile: core measures, subsectors, and figures for 2022–2025.

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All states, 2025

Annual averages for 2025 from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Totals and averages describe each state's manufacturing industry as a whole, not individual plants. BLS withheld employment and wages for 6 of the 51 (Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Wyoming); these show “Not disclosed” and rank last in numeric sorts.

51 states and DC

LQ is the employment location quotient: manufacturing's share of all jobs in the state divided by its share of all U.S. jobs. Methodology