Manufacturing in Pickens County, South Carolina

Pickens, South Carolina, is home to 138 establishments as counted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2024, covering 13 of 21 manufacturing subsectors BLS publishes for this place. Listed in the register are 72 facilities across 9 cities, with 26 located in Easley. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Machinery Manufacturing had an annual payroll of about $0.1 billion and employed 1,667 people in 2024.

SUMMARIZED FROM THE FEDERAL FIGURES ON THIS PAGE

Map, cities and benchmark

Biggest cities

Easley29 Liberty19 Central11 Pickens5 Clemson4 Cleveland1 Marietta1 Pendleton1 Sunset1

Federal labor statistics counted at least 138 manufacturing establishments in Pickens County in 2024, employing about 4,382 people, counting only the industry subsectors the Bureau of Labor Statistics discloses at this level. This registry lists 72, about 52% of that figure.

What Pickens County makes18 INDUSTRIES

Textile Mills11 Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing10 Food Manufacturing9 Chemical Manufacturing5 Transportation Equipment Manufacturing5 Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing5 Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing4 Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing4 Primary Metal Manufacturing3 Machinery Manufacturing3 Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing3 Miscellaneous Manufacturing2 Paper Manufacturing2 Textile Product Mills2 Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing2 Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing1 Printing and Related Support Activities1 Wood Product Manufacturing1

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 South Carolina — the register has no industry page scoped to a county.

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