How concentrated America's optical instrument plants really are, by state
quantum computing research · Data as of 2026-10-01
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43.7%
Share of America's Optical Instrument Plants in Its Top Three States — California, Massachusetts, New York
# State Optical Instrument Plants
1 California 104 2 Massachusetts 35 3 New York 33 4 Florida 20 5 Texas 18 6 New Hampshire 17 7 Colorado 17 8 Pennsylvania 15 9 Michigan 14 10 Illinois 12
Methodology
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022, NAICS 333314 (Optical instrument and lens manufacturing)
Measure Optical Instrument Plants, ranked highest first across all U.S. states
(30 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed The top three units' combined count divided by the combined count of all 30 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.
Vintage 2022
Reproduce this query https://api.census.gov/data/2022/cbp?get=NAME%2CESTAB%2CNAICS2017_LABEL&for=state%3A%2A&NAICS2017=333314&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY
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