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Industry footprint by metro

Share is the percentage of all employed residents working in your selected industries. Concentration compares that share with the US average for the same year: 2× means twice the share, not twice your chance of a job.

Metropolitan areaEmployed in selectionIndustry shareUS concentrationResidents 22–29
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area255,202± 8,900 MOE24.0%1.9×234,613
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area550,634± 13,247 MOE22.5%1.7×473,247
Boulder, CO Metro Area40,406± 3,376 MOE22.4%1.7×41,093
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area768,485± 11,890 MOE22.2%1.7×684,193
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metro Area292,858± 12,108 MOE20.5%1.6×312,601
Raleigh-Cary, NC Metro Area168,149± 7,205 MOE20.0%1.6×168,754
Santa Fe, NM Metro Area13,882± 1,900 MOE18.0%1.4×13,311
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area310,713± 9,729 MOE18.0%1.4×365,187
Huntsville, AL Metro Area50,016± 3,784 MOE18.0%1.4×59,542
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area291,065± 10,097 MOE17.8%1.4×380,059
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area488,000± 10,780 MOE17.5%1.4×579,707
Wildwood-The Villages, FL Metro Area6,267± 1,861 MOE17.5%1.4×5,294
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area385,340± 11,625 MOE17.4%1.4×485,331
Charleston-North Charleston, SC Metro Area74,605± 6,106 MOE16.7%1.3×95,955
Madison, WI Metro Area67,779± 4,562 MOE16.7%1.3×95,284
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area549,901± 14,059 MOE16.5%1.3×688,731
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area83,221± 5,112 MOE16.4%1.3×94,759
Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT Metro Area62,707± 4,491 MOE16.4%1.3×128,026
Idaho Falls, ID Metro Area12,570± 1,844 MOE16.1%1.3×18,602
Kennewick-Richland, WA Metro Area23,383± 3,087 MOE16.1%1.3×36,133
Naples-Marco Island, FL Metro Area28,064± 3,658 MOE16.1%1.3×26,971
Lexington Park, MD Metro Area16,824± 1,887 MOE16.0%1.2×20,828
Kingston, NY Metro Area14,079± 1,886 MOE15.9%1.2×17,515
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area1,583,789± 22,088 MOE15.8%1.2×2,177,272
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metro Area233,883± 7,826 MOE15.8%1.2×287,483
Fort Collins-Loveland, CO Metro Area31,890± 2,965 MOE15.7%1.2×49,449
Albuquerque, NM Metro Area69,311± 5,022 MOE15.6%1.2×95,701
Port St. Lucie, FL Metro Area37,717± 4,591 MOE15.6%1.2×43,120
Charlottesville, VA Metro Area18,007± 2,689 MOE15.5%1.2×25,444
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metro Area509,172± 14,009 MOE15.4%1.2×620,397
Definitions & source

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, DP03 and B01001. Counts cover civilian employed residents aged 16 and over, including people who commute elsewhere. They are not local workplace job counts or job vacancies. No career seniority breakdown is available in these tables.

Ages 22–24 and 25–29 are published bands; we do not estimate an exact 22–26 group. MOEs are 90% margins of error; combined counts use the Census square-root-of-summed-squares approximation. Small differences may be sampling noise. Historical boundaries and classifications are not harmonized.

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