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Deerfield, IL, a suburb of Chicago, is also on the list. Also, Norwalk, CT is on the list.
Austin only has 1 F500 headquarters. There is corporate presence in Austin as numerous big companies have pretty large offices there. Also the city itself has just under 1 million people. It is the MSA that has 2+ million
Austin gets a lot of tech hype but it's not a major tech HQ city at all.
Seattle doesn't have a ton of companies on these lists. However we had three of the top 26 in Microsoft, Costco, and Amazon, with revenues of $110, $142, and $232 billion.
LA...amazing...its top company was #53...Disney at $59 billion.
San Diego, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Portland were all pretty light. Salt Lake City and Sacramento...zero in the 500.
Boise kicked ass...#52 and 105 in Albertson's and Micron.
Austin's Dell ranked #34.
Kansas City peaked at #455.
Dallas kicked ass with three of the top nine.
Houston and Atlanta had a lot of companies on the list but topped out at #23 and #27 respectively.
Seattle doesn't have a ton of companies on these lists. However we had three of the top 26 in Microsoft, Costco, and Amazon, with revenues of $110, $142, and $232 billion.
LA...amazing...its top company was #53...Disney at $59 billion.
San Diego, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Portland were all pretty light. Salt Lake City and Sacramento...zero in the 500.
Boise kicked ass...#52 and 105 in Albertson's and Micron.
Austin's Dell ranked #34.
Kansas City peaked at #455.
Dallas kicked ass with three of the top nine.
Houston and Atlanta had a lot of companies on the list but topped out at #23 and #27 respectively.
30 years ago LA had more of a presence with oil companies and aerospace, but those have all moved or been bought out. LA hasn't been seen as a good place for business in a generation. The perception is slowly changing, but the reality is that it's still a bad place for business. Our local government is pretty hostile to any jobs that aren't union or government jobs.
Along with the Bay Area, those are the most impressive. Given Chicago’s population decline I think it’s impressive as well.
To judge a place by its population trends, without looking deeper at the story behind the trend, is fairly naive. Chicago has been #2 in this (pure MSA wise, not CSA) for a long time and the population trend has had absolutely no negative impact on companies. In reality, there were Fortune 500 companies that had moved their HQ to Chicago in the last few years including ConAgra, Caterpillar, and ADM. There's also organizations which had moved - GE Healthcare which does $19B a year moved its HQ from England to Chicago a year or two ago. If it was its own company, it would be in the top 175 in Fortune 500.
Of the top 5 largest MSAs in the country, these are the Bachlor's degree and higher attainment percentages:
NYC MSA: 38.7%
Chicago MSA: 36.7%
Dallas MSA: 33.7%
Los Angeles MSA: 33.1%
Houston MSA: 31.9%
Chicago is not losing its place in this ranking MSA wise anytime soon. The only area that truly competes with it is the Bay Area if you put SF and San Jose together (which makes sense). Although Houston and Dallas are juggernauts in their own right in this, I don't think they are going to be 2nd place in the next few years at all.
Austin gets a lot of tech hype but it's not a major tech HQ city at all.
Agree. It's a good city if you want a job in tech for a corporation but outside of that it's maybe a little overhyped. It pulls its weight well for its size though for sure.
MSA Inhabitants Per Fortune 500 Company:
*the smaller the better
1,022,384 Los Angeles
809,500 Phoenix
774,750 Miami
513,800 Charlotte
468,923 Philadelphia
432,644 Detroit
411,400 Cleveland
390,562 Washington DC
386,000 Nashville
375,075 Boston
371,812 Atlanta
358,090 Seattle
332,000 Pittsburgh
327,782 Dallas
318,045 Houston
312,857 Cincinnati
311,666 St Louis
293,241 Denver
281,394 New York
279,352 Chicago
248,894 San Francisco
226,812 Minneapolis
225,142 Milwaukee
186,571 Richmond 177,052 Bay Area
105,210 San Jose
104,869 Bridgeport
2019 Fortune 500 companies ranked top 50, by MSA
1. New York City MSA: 8 companies
2T. Chicago MSA: 3 companies
2T. Dallas MSA: 3 companies
2T. Philadelphia MSA: 3 companies
2T. San Jose MSA: 3 companies
2T. Seattle MSA: 3 companies
7T. Atlanta MSA: 2 companies
7T. Cincinnati MSA: 2 companies
7T. Detroit MSA: 2 companies
7T. Minneapolis MSA: 2 companies
7T. San Francisco MSA: 2 companies
7T. Washington DC MSA: 2 companies
2019 Fortune 500 companies ranked 51-100, by MSA
1. New York City MSA: 9 companies
2. Chicago MSA: 5 companies
3. Houston MSA: 4 companies
4T. Washington DC MSA: 3 companies
4T. Minneapolis MSA: 3 companies
6T. Atlanta MSA: 2 companies
6T. Boston MSA: 2 companies
6T. Dallas MSA: 2 companies
6T. San Francisco MSA: 2 companies
6T. San Jose MSA: 2 companies
2019 Fortune 500 companies ranked 101-200, by MSA
1. New York City MSA: 10 companies
2. Dallas MSA: 7 companies
3T. Chicago MSA: 6 companies
3T. San Jose MSA: 6 companies
5. San Francisco MSA: 5 companies
6. Washington DC MSA: 4 companies
7T. Atlanta MSA: 3 companies
7T. Houston MSA: 3 companies
7T. Los Angeles MSA: 3 companies
7T. Miami MSA: 3 companies
7T. Milwaukee MSA: 3 companies
7T. Minneapolis MSA: 3 companies
7T. Richmond MSA: 3 companies
7T. Seattle MSA: 3 companies
2019 Fortune 500 companies ranked 201-300, by MSA
1. New York City MSA: 19 companies
2. Houston MSA: 7 companies
3. Chicago MSA: 6 companies
4T. Los Angeles MSA: 5 companies
4T. Minneapolis MSA: 5 companies
4T. San Francisco MSA: 5 companies
7. Denver MSA: 4 companies
8T. Boston MSA: 3 companies
8T. Pittsburgh MSA: 3 companies
8T. San Jose MSA: 3 companies
2019 Fortune 500 companies ranked 301-400, by MSA
1. New York City MSA: 13 companies
2. Dallas MSA: 8 companies
3T. Houston MSA: 5 companies
3T. Bridgeport, CT MSA: 5 companies
5T. Atlanta MSA: 4 companies
5T. Chicago MSA: 4 companies
5T. Detroit MSA: 4 companies
5T. Los Angeles MSA: 4 companies
9. Washington DC MSA: 3 companies
10T. Denver MSA: 2 companies
10T. Minneapolis MSA: 2 companies
2019 Fortune 500 companies ranked 401-500, by MSA
1. New York City MSA: 12 companies
2. Chicago MSA: 10 companies
3. Atlanta MSA: 5 companies
4T. Boston MSA: 4 companies
4T. Philadelphia MSA: 4 companies
4T. St. Louis MSA: 5 companies
4T. San Francisco MSA: 5 companies
4T. San Jose MSA: 4 companies
9T. Cincinnati MSA: 3 companies
9T. Milwaukee MSA: 3 companies
9T. Phoenix MSA: 3 companies
9T. Washington DC MSA: 3 companies
2019 Fortune 500 companies ranked 501-1000, by MSA
1. New York City MSA: 42 companies
2. Chicago MSA: 31 companies
3. Houston MSA: 24 companies
4T. Dallas MSA: 20 companies
4T. Los Angeles MSA: 20 companies
6. San Jose MSA: 19 companies
7. Boston MSA: 17 companies
8. San Francisco MSA: 16 companies
9T. Philadelphia MSA: 14 companies
9T. Washington DC MSA: 14 companies
Fortune 500 Companies Per MSA Inhabitants:
1,022,384 Los Angeles
809,500 Phoenix
774,750 Miami
513,800 Charlotte
468,923 Philadelphia
432,644 Detroit
411,400 Cleveland
390,562 Washington DC
386,000 Nashville
375,075 Boston
371,812 Atlanta
358,090 Seattle
332,000 Pittsburgh
327,782 Dallas
318,045 Houston
312,857 Cincinnati
311,666 St Louis
293,241 Denver
281,394 New York
279,352 Chicago
248,894 San Francisco
226,812 Minneapolis
225,142 Milwaukee
186,571 Richmond 177,052 Bay Area
105,210 San Jose
104,869 Bridgeport
I think it's more like "Inhabitants per Fortune 500 company" - the smaller the better essentially.
I think it's more like "Inhabitants per Fortune 500 company" - the smaller the better essentially.
Yeah..thanks
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