Overview of national data
- Dive deeper into U.S. state-level data
- Visualize some of the economic patterns that emerge when looking at state-level data
3. Diving Deeper: State-Level Data
Some interesting patterns emerge if we look at production at the state level rather than the national level. To begin, the map below shows each state's primary industry in 2023 using the same color scheme as the treemap
We see that that the vast majority of states had "Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing" as their highest-producing industry in that year, though there are a few states that did not. North Dakota and Wyoming both had "Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction" as their top industry, while Indiana and Louisiana both had "Manufacturing" as their top industry. Five states—Alaska, Maryland, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and West Virginia—all had "Government and government enterprises" as their top industry in 2015.
To get a more detailed view of what each state produces, click on a specific state within the map. Click again on the same state to zoom back out to the national level. As with the visualization in the previous section, click on a high-level group within the treemap to see the sub-industries within it.
To get a better sense of each state's "specialty," the map below colors each state with its second-highest-producing industry if the highest-producing industry is "Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing."
The map reveals regional patterns of state specialty, with many midwestern, and some southern, states focusing on manufacturing. A number of western and northeastern states focus on professional and business services. Interestingly, there is only one state—South Dakota—that has agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting as either its highest or second-highest producing industry. This is similarly the case with Washington and the information industry, Nevada with the arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation, and food services industry, and Maine with the educational services, health care, and social assistance industry.
When viewed as percentages, these specialties can be significantly higher than the corresponding percentages at the national level. For instance, the information industry grouping—which contains sub-industries like motion pictures, telecommunications, and web search—comprised about 5 percent of overall national GDP in 2023 but nearly 16 percent of Washington's state GDP in that year. As another example, the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry grouping represented about 1.5 percent of national GDP in 2023, while it comprised nearly 17 percent of Wyoming's state GDP in that same year.