Where American manufacturing went, and where it's coming back
Pick a category or an industry group, and a starting year. Each place is shaded by how its factory jobs changed from that year to today. Hover for the numbers; click to see what it makes and what it lost.
Category
Industry
Measure
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Geography
Counties are available for All manufacturing only: BLS withholds most county figures for individual industries.
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Change since
2000
Quick picks
The national picture
Shaded band = the years you've selected
Jobs
Manufacturing employment, millions · BLS
Output
Industrial production index, 2017 = 100 · Federal Reserve
Factory construction
Construction spending, $ billions a year · Census
What each category includes
Every manufacturing industry BLS tracks sits in exactly one category and one industry group, so together they add up to all of manufacturing. The small numbers are NAICS industry codes, the federal system BLS uses to classify businesses.
Data sources
- BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages: jobs, establishments (plants and shops) and pay by county, state and industry, private sector, annual averages.
- BLS Current Employment Statistics: national manufacturing jobs since 1979 (via FRED).
- Federal Reserve G.17 Industrial Production: manufacturing output (via FRED).
- Census Construction Spending: manufacturing construction (via FRED).
- BLS Consumer Price Index: used to put pay in today's dollars.
- Census Bureau County Business Patterns: plants by number of employees.
- us-atlas: county and state outlines from the Census Bureau.