How concentrated America's aircraft plants really are, by metro

U.S. space and aviation · Data as of 2026-10-04 · ALEX Intelligence

23.5% Share of America's Aircraft Plants in Its Top Three Metros — Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Wichita, KS

#	Metro	Aircraft Plants
1	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	24
2	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	19
3	Wichita, KS	11
4	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	11
5	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	9
6	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	9
7	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	8
8	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	8
9	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	8
10	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	8

Methodology

Source:: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022, NAICS 336411 (Aircraft manufacturing)
Measure: Aircraft Plants, ranked highest first across all U.S. metros (37 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed: The top three units' combined count divided by the combined count of all 37 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=metropolitan%20statistical%20area%2Fmicropolitan%20statistical%20area%3A%2A&NAICS2017=336411&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY

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