Alabama: Making Things, Mostly In Small Shops
Alabama's Commerce Department pitches the state as a place of makers, with sectors from aerospace and automotive to metals, bioscience and logistics, and the federal numbers agree about the scale. The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns counts 105,720 employer establishments statewide, 94.4% with fewer than 50 employees, including 4,145 manufacturing and 11,562 health care establishments. Statewide counts of business locations stay separate from the metro numbers below.
- Alabama Department of Commerce: Made in Alabama industry sectors (current page; retrieved 2026-10-08)
- U.S. Census Bureau: 2023 County Business Patterns: State file (cbp23st) (2023 CBP; retrieved 2026-10-05)