The Factory Census, Q3 2026

A quarterly count of U.S. manufacturing facilities (NAICS 31-33) compiled from federal records, with per-state coverage measured against the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) establishment benchmark. These are the tables of the published edition, exactly as printed at https://www.factoryregistry.com/census/2026-q3. The edition is a snapshot taken on 2026-08-06 and does not change afterwards; corrections are published as a new edition. Headline. 262,554 facilities listed across 3,061 counties; 113,815 (43.3%) with a recent operating signal. Files. States by facility count, per capita and with a recent operating signal; coverage against the QCEW benchmark; the 25 biggest manufacturing counties; industry concentration by NAICS subsector; employment bands; the top counties and subsectors in each state; headline figures. README.md holds the methodology and a data dictionary, and datapackage.json describes the files in the Frictionless Data Package format. Sources. EPA Facility Registry Service, OSHA inspection records, SAM.gov entity registrations, Census Bureau geography and population estimates (vintage 2024), and BLS QCEW (2024).