The gap between where systems design practices are growing and where they are not
the U.S. AI economy · Data as of 2026-09-16
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15.2%
Spread Between the Fastest and Slowest Growth in Systems Design Practices — North Carolina against Illinois
# State Systems Design Practices
1 Wyoming 48.5% 2 South Dakota 38.8% 3 Delaware 33.2% 4 Puerto Rico 24.5% 5 Texas 22.4% 6 Washington 14.8% 7 Montana 10.1% 8 Florida 9.1% 9 Tennessee 7.6% 10 North Carolina 6.9%
Methodology
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2019 and 2022, NAICS 541512 (Computer systems design services)
Measure Systems Design Practices, ranked highest first across all U.S. states
(52 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed The tenth-highest value minus the tenth-lowest, across all 52 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
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