State-by-State Manufacturing Intensity
This map shows the importance of manufacturing in each state compared to the national average. Texas ranks seventeenth in terms of “intensity” but has more manufacturing jobs inside its borders than any other state except California. The 820,000 manufacturing jobs in Texas are 300,000 more than in New York and 200,000 more than in Ohio, Illinois or Pennsylvania. But Texas has lost almost 100,000 manufacturing jobs in the last year alone.
Overall, the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs has declined by 32.7 percent since 1999. After 5.7 million layoffs in the past ten years, there are only 11.6 million Americans employed in manufacturing today, a little more than 10 percent of the nation’s total private-sector workforce. (For a complete state-by-state breakdown of manufacturing employment, click here)
SOURCE: Heritage Foundation calculations based on data from Bureau of Economic Analysis, Gross Domestic Product by State, 2007. Link here.
