The gap between where food manufacturing plants are growing and where they are not
U.S. agriculture · Data as of 2026-09-20
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48.5%
Spread Between the Fastest and Slowest Growth in Food Manufacturing Plants — Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA against Barre, VT
# Metro Food Manufacturing Plants
1 La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN 78.3% 2 Savannah, GA 50.0% 3 Raleigh-Cary, NC 44.9% 4 Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT 44.4% 5 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL 40.0% 6 Vallejo, CA 40.0% 7 Sioux Falls, SD-MN 35.0% 8 Lexington-Fayette, KY 32.4% 9 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 32.2% 10 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA 31.2%
Methodology
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2019 and 2022, NAICS 311 (Food manufacturing)
Measure Food Manufacturing Plants, ranked highest first across all U.S. metros
(205 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed The tenth-highest value minus the tenth-lowest, across all 205 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=311&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY
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