Interactive: Locating American Manufacturing

[All Along The Watchtower]

From the Brookings Institution:

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http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/manufacturing-interactive
   

Interesting stuff.

My metro area:

San Francisco, CA

Number of manufacturing jobs, 2010: 116,097

Manufacturing share of all jobs, 2010: 6.0%

Share of manufacturing jobs considered very high-tech: 32.7%

Share of manufacturing jobs considered moderately high-tech: 17.5%

[Sbane]

And in San Jose, they are 17.5% of jobs, 74.6% of which is consider very high tech and 8.5% is considered moderately high tech.

In the LA metro (which contains Orange County), 9.9% of jobs are manufacturing, of which 26.9% is considered very high tech and 11.4% are considered moderately high tech. In the Riverside metro, which has been hit hard by the recession, 7.2% of jobs are manufacturing but only 10.1% is considered very high tech and 14.4% is considered moderately high tech. In San Diego, a brightspot in the California economy (along with the Bay Area and Orange County), only 6.8% of jobs are manufacturing, but 39.6% is considered very high tech and 20.4% is considered moderately high tech.

A lot of the job losses in California, in addition to the construction and transport industry, have to do with low skill manufacturing. California is just too expensive a place for these industries to operate in.