Where All The Stuff Gets Made In The U.S. of A.

By Justin Fox
Bloomberg

What are the U.S. counties with the most people working in transportation-equipment manufacturing? I wondered this while working on a column about Detroit. Thanks to the magic of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data viewer, I soon had an answer:

I’ve sorted here by employment in transportation equipment instead of a narrower category such as motor vehicle manufacturing because of a quirk of how the BLS releases county employment data: If there are so few employers in an industry in a county that one could figure out how many people work at one of them and how much money they make, the agency suppresses the data. There are lots of one-auto-plant counties. By going with the broader category, I’m less likely to miss out on them.So Wayne County, Michigan, home of Detroit, is No. 1, and two neighboring counties (Macomb and Oakland) rank highly. That makes sense for the headquarters of the U.S. auto industry. King County, Washington, is Seattle, and Snohomish County is just to the north – Boeing Co. country, in other words. Elkhart County, Indiana, is “the RV Capital of the World.” Tarrant County (Fort Worth) is home to big General Motors Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. plants, as well as the headquarters of Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

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