US manufacturing plants — charts
The same 1280 plants, read as distributions instead of a map: how they break down by sector, size, growth trajectory and dominant production process, and roughly what share of U.S. manufacturing this sample represents by employment and by establishment count. Companion: the plant map.
By sector — plants (1,280 total)
- Food & beverage157 · 12.3%
- Chemicals, plastics & refining122 · 9.5%
- Pharma, biotech & medical121 · 9.5%
- Machinery & heavy equipment121 · 9.5%
- Automotive & mobility113 · 8.8%
- Aerospace & defense106 · 8.3%
- Consumer goods & appliances102 · 8.0%
- Steel, aluminum & metals101 · 7.9%
- Energy, batteries & clean tech99 · 7.7%
- Semiconductors & electronics84 · 6.6%
- Paper, wood, glass & materials83 · 6.5%
- Textiles, apparel & footwear71 · 5.5%
1,280 plants, 1,919,280 estimated jobs. Switch the dimension (sector, size, growth trajectory, dominant process) and the measure (plant count vs. headcount) with the toggles above; hover a bar to highlight it. Employee figures are editorial order-of-magnitude estimates assembled for shape, not audited operational data. Companion: the plant map.