How concentrated America's precision instrument plants really are, by metro
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· ALEX Intelligence
16.6%Share of America's Precision Instrument Plants in Its Top Three Metros — Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
#
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).
How the headline figure is computed
The top three units' combined count divided by the combined count of all 204 ranked units.
Universe
Places below a 5,000-resident floor are excluded so a median computed on a handful of households cannot top the ranking.
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