Manufacturing in Oakland County, Michigan

Oakland, Michigan lists 1631 facilities in the register. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 2232 establishments in 2024, covering 18 of 21 manufacturing subsectors. Transportation Equipment Manufacturing had 22111 employees and an annual payroll of about $2.4 billion, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

SUMMARIZED FROM THE FEDERAL FIGURES ON THIS PAGE

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Biggest cities

Troy215 Auburn Hills179 Wixom141 Madison Heights116 Novi92 Rochester Hills90 Farmington Hills87 Southfield82 Pontiac61 Ferndale54 Oxford37 Royal Oak36

Federal labor statistics counted at least 2,232 manufacturing establishments in Oakland County in 2024, employing about 68,448 people, counting only the industry subsectors the Bureau of Labor Statistics discloses at this level. This registry lists 1,631, about 73% of that figure.

What Oakland County makes21 INDUSTRIES

Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing354 Machinery Manufacturing284 Transportation Equipment Manufacturing277 Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing111 Chemical Manufacturing109 Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing103 Miscellaneous Manufacturing81 Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing62 Electrical Equipment, Appliance & Component Manufacturing53 Primary Metal Manufacturing49 Printing and Related Support Activities48 Food Manufacturing40 Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing38 Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing29 Paper Manufacturing18 Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing17 Wood Product Manufacturing13 Apparel Manufacturing11 Textile Product Mills10 Textile Mills4 Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing2

Bars are drawn against the largest subsector listed; the figure is the facility count in this county. Each row links to that industry across all of Michigan — the register has no industry page scoped to a county.

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