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Industry Fit

How your community or region scores for small, medium and large projects in every three-digit NAICS industry, measured the way site selectors search on FastLocations: workforce and skills, infrastructure and power, logistics, incentives, land and operating cost, livability, innovation and the industry base you already have. Open any industry to see what drives its score and what would raise it.

🏭 85 industries × 3 project sizes📊 One score per industry and size💡 An action plan to raise each score

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⭐ Best-fit industries

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How the scores work

For each industry and project size we model a typical project (jobs, building, acreage and power load, the occupations it hires and the incentives it values) and score every U.S. county and Canadian census division with the same engine that ranks places when site selectors search FastLocations. 50 is the typical county for that project; every 15 points above or below is a step further from typical, so 70+ is a strong fit and under 40 a weak one. A territory with several counties scores 60% on the average of its counties and 40% on its strongest location, since a project lands in one place but a region is more than its best county.

Eleven factors: workforce and skills, education and growth, infrastructure and power, logistics, state or provincial incentives, land and property tax, operating cost, public safety, market reach, livability and innovation, weighted for the type and size of project.
Industry cluster: the establishments and jobs your area already has in the industry, as a location quotient and as the size of the base. U.S.: Census County Business Patterns (for farming, Census ACS farm employment). Canada: Statistics Canada Canadian Business Counts by census subdivision, rolled up to census divisions.
Small labor markets are scored cautiously, pulled toward the national average, because one large project can exhaust them.
“Up to +N pts” estimates what lifting that factor to the 65th percentile would add to your score. “+N match” quick wins raise your match score in site selectors’ searches on FastLocations (listed sites, verified power); they do not change the score on this page.

Scores updated . They refresh with each FastLocations data update.

NAICS	Industry	Small	Medium	Large

Sources: FastLocations scoring engine (Esri/ACS, BLS, BEA, EIA, FEMA, County Health Rankings, StatsAmerica, Statistics Canada), U.S. Census County Business Patterns and Statistics Canada Canadian Business Counts. Click an industry for what drives its score and an action plan to raise it.

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Disclaimer. Industry Fit scores are estimates from the FastLocations scoring model, built on public data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Statistics Canada and other sources. That data can be incomplete or out of date, and parts of it are estimated: small U.S. industry counts are not published, and Canadian job counts are estimated from employment-size ranges. A score shows how a location compares with others on the model's factors. It does not predict whether a company will invest there, and it does not reflect site conditions, negotiations or local knowledge. The points in each action plan are model estimates, not guaranteed results. The scores are for planning and general information only and are not legal, financial, engineering or investment advice. Check the underlying data before relying on it in decisions or public materials.