USA Industrial Activity
Annual tract-level workplace employment across the USA from Census LEHD LODES8, with total jobs plus industry, age, earnings, race, education, sex, firm-age, and firm-size breakdowns. Best source for locating where manufacturing, wholesale, and warehousing jobs are physically concentrated.
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USA Industrial Activity
Annual tract-level workplace employment across the USA from Census LEHD LODES8, with total jobs plus industry, age, earnings, race, education, sex, firm-age, and firm-size breakdowns. Best source for locating where manufacturing, wholesale, and warehousing jobs are physically concentrated.
Source agencies
- U.S. Census Bureau - Public Domain (US government work) (County Business Patterns annual county files, one zip per year.)
- U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Program - Public Domain (US government work) (One gzipped state-year CSV per file. Source rows are native census blocks; this runtime artifact aggregates them to census tracts.)
- U.S. Census Bureau - Public Domain (US government work) (County 3-digit NAICS enterprise-size tables, available 2015-2022.)
- U.S. Census Bureau - Public Domain (US government work) (Legacy state detail tables extend history back to 2007 and remain in the folder as supplementary files.)
Data sets
| Data set | Source | License | Time | Levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census County Business Patterns cbp | U.S. Census Bureau | Public Domain (US government work) | 1998 - 2023 | 2 |
| Annual county-level establishment counts, employment, payroll, and size buckets by NAICS from Census County Business Patterns. Best county-scale view of where manufacturing and other industrial establishments are concentrated. | ||||
| LEHD LODES Workplace Area Characteristics lodes | U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Program | Public Domain (US government work) | 2002 - 2023 | 3 |
| Annual workplace job counts by industry and worker/firm attributes from Census LEHD LODES8. Runtime artifact is tract-level so Research mode can map and compare industrial employment concentration, while yearly block-level detail remains on disk. | ||||
| Statistics of US Businesses susb | U.S. Census Bureau | Public Domain (US government work) | 2015 - 2022 | 2 |
| Annual county-level business counts, establishments, employment, payroll, and enterprise-size structure from Census Statistics of US Businesses. Best source for finding where small manufacturing firms dominate relative to larger employers. | ||||