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Area Statistics
Madison County
- Civilian Labor Force - 158,300
- Employment - 151,468
- Number of Manufacturers - 350
- Total Manufacturing Employment - 43,430
Source: Labor Market News - Alabama Department of Industrial Relations 2005
Largest Employers:
- The Boeing Co. - 2800
- Cinram - 2800
- Siemens/VDO Automotive - 2300
- Adtran Inc. - 1700
- Sanmina Inc. - 1700
Huntsville/Madison County Facts
Population:
- Madison Co. - 289,662
- Huntsville - 164,237
- Madison - 34,080
- Metro Area (Madision/Limestone) - 357,907
- 50-mile radius - 899,893
- 100-mile radius - 4,294,925
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, 225 companies employing 23,000 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.
- Huntsville ranks #6 on Forbes List of Top Cities for Business. 5/05
- Huntsville listed among the South's Top 3 Metros for Quality of Life. 5/05
- Huntsville ranks in Popular Sciences's list of America's Top 50 Technology Hot Spots. 3/05
- Huntsville rated one of the nation's top values for salaries and cost of living. 5/05
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