The gap between where r&d services establishments are growing and where they are not
AI safety research · Data as of 2026-09-10
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47.2%
Spread Between the Fastest and Slowest Growth in R&D Services Establishments — Knoxville, TN against Champaign-Urbana, IL
# Metro R&D Services Establishments
1 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL 90.0% 2 Ogden, UT 68.0% 3 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC 44.7% 4 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC 43.8% 5 College Station-Bryan, TX 41.7% 6 Wilmington, NC 41.4% 7 Reno, NV 40.6% 8 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL 38.2% 9 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 37.3% 10 Knoxville, TN 35.0%
Methodology
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2019 and 2022, NAICS 5417 (Scientific research and development services)
Measure R&D Services Establishments, ranked highest first across all U.S. metros
(115 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed The tenth-highest value minus the tenth-lowest, across all 115 ranked units. The single extremes are deliberately not used.
Universe Places below a 5,000-resident floor are excluded so a median computed on a handful of households cannot top the ranking.
Vintage 2022
Reproduce this query https://api.census.gov/data/2022/cbp?get=NAME%2CESTAB%2CNAICS2017_LABEL&for=metropolitan%20statistical%20area%2Fmicropolitan%20statistical%20area%3A%2A&NAICS2017=5417&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY
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language model. The query is stated so that anyone can re-run it and obtain
the same table.
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