Where America's precision instrument plants actually are, by metro

quantum computing research · Data as of 2026-09-18 · ALEX Intelligence

289 Precision Instrument Plants — Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

#	Metro	Precision Instrument Plants
1	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	289
2	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	269
3	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	208
4	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	173
5	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	167
6	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	163
7	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	150
8	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	141
9	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	132
10	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	123

Methodology

Source:: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022, NAICS 3345 (Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing)
Measure: Precision Instrument Plants, ranked highest first across all U.S. metros (204 ranked in total).
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=3345&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY

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