Area Statistics

Madison County

• Civilian Labor Force
• Employment
• Number of Manufacturers
• Total Manufacturing Employment

Largest Employers

Huntsville/Madison County Facts

Population:

• Madison Co.
• Huntsville
• Madison
• Metro Area (Madision/Limestone)
• 50-mile radius
• 100-mile radius

Facts:

• Huntsville is the birthplace of the U.S. Space program. The first U.S. rockets to put payloads and Americans into space were designed and built in Huntsville, as were the rockets that put man on the moon.
• Huntsville/Madison County is home to the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal.
• Nearly every major U.S. aerospace corporation is represented in Huntsville, 90+ companies employing more than 11,000 people.
• Military and support contract employment tops 32,000.
• NASA's MSFC and support contractors employ more than 8,000 in the Huntsville region.
• Huntsville's Cummings Research Park is the country's second largest research and technology park, 285 companies employing 25,000 people in technology research and development.
• More than half of the U.S. Army's weapons procurement budgets are managed in Huntsville. All U.S. Army aviation, missile and missile defense programs are managed in Huntsville.
• More than half of the U.S. Army's foreign military sales are managed in Huntsville.
• Total federal budgets managed in Huntsville exceed $24 billion annually.
• NATO's MEADS missile defense program office is headquartered in Huntsville. Germany, Italy and the U.S. are partnered on the development of the next generation theater missile defense program, MEADS.
• May 2009, Huntsville named one of Forbes Leading Cities for Business.
• June 2009, Forbes named Huntsville one of the Top 5 Best Cities for Recession Recovery.
• July 2009, Kiplinger's Magazine, named Huntsville the Nation’s Best City in 2009.
• The City of Huntsville receives Standard & Poor’s highest possible “AAA” bond rating for strength of the local economy. (Press Release)