The idea behind our analysis was to observe the growth of tech-related industries versus manufacturing industries in different cities in the US between the years 2007 – 2016. We picked some of the well-established economic giants such as New York city on the east coast, San Francisco on the west coast, Houston in south and Chicago in mid-west. Along with that we were curious to observe trends in some upcoming cities such as Austin in Texas which is traditionally oil driven economy (manufacturing sector) which currently in lime light because of new tech storm in the city. Similarly, Detroit which is traditionally a manufacturing hub and we were curious to see what kind of balance between manufacturing and tech in recent year exists in it. And finally, Boston, an innovation hub, we wanted to see how manufacturing sector is doing compared to Tech.
Data Source
The data source for the project is US Government Census data:
- Population of the Cities
- Payroll, yearly for metro area for the respective cities
- Establishments (count years) for manufacturing sector and tech sector for the metro area
- Employment (count years) for manufacturing sector and tech sector for the metro area
Trend Analysis
To get more information on each city you are welcome to view our visualization page which contains detailed analysis of trends based on historic data or check our data source
Visualization Data