Oakland County has the largest number of manufacturing firms in Michigan.
Oakland County has 29 percent of the total employees in the Detroit MSA and 13.5 percent of the total in the State of Michigan.
Oakland County residents account for over 670,000 of the total labor force.
Oakland County represents 15 percent of Michigan's total manufacturing sales.
Oakland County manufacturing firms equal 15 percent of all manufacturing firms in Michigan and 32 percent of all manufacturing firms in the Detroit MSA.
Oakland County is home to 16 percent of Michigan's industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment firms.
Oakland's 869 computer and electronic manufacturing firms represent 17.3 percent of the state's total.
Approximately 189,000 Oakland County employees worked in manufacturing in 2001.
Oakland County's 2,500 manufacturing firms had an estimated $235 billion in sales and paid over $8.7 billion in employee wages in 2001.
Employment in Oakland County's finished fabrics industry has grown by almost 3,500 in the last five years, second only to transportation equipment in total employment gain.
The number of printing and publishing firms have led firm growth in all manufacturing sectors over the last five years.
Oakland County experienced a 23.1 percent increase in manufacturing wages and a 12.2 percent increase in the number of manufacturing jobs between 1997 and 2001 while the number of firms increased 5.2 percent.
While manufacturing has been declining on the whole, both Oakland County and the State of Michigan have experienced gains of 15.7 and 14.4 percent respectively in the number of transportation equipment firms over the last five years.
Transportation equipment continues to dominate the manufacturing employment industry in Oakland County with a gain of 6,322 jobs between 1997 and 2001.
Oakland County is home to over 65 percent of the Detroit MSA's largest automotive equipment suppliers with total worldwide parts sales of $218.7 billion as ranked by Crain's Detroit Business in 2001.
