Texas Almanac, 1958-1959 Page: 324
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Manufacturing, by Cities-1954 and 1947
Includes Texas cities of 10,000 or more population by census of 1950. Data on manufacturing
below are from U.S. Bureau of the Census for manufacturing during the years 1954 and 1947.
1954 31947
All employees Production workers Value
Value Capital Value
Estab- added by expendi- All added by
Cities lish- Payroll Man- manu- tures, em- manu-
Cities- Num- Payroll Manfacture new
ments, Num Number hours Wages facture new ployees facture
number ($1,000) (1,000) ($1,000) ($1,000) ($1,000) number ($1000)
Abilene .... 67 2,301 6,554 1,6311 3,3181 3,8201 19,458 377 1,2141 4,776
Alice 14 103 259 78 148 186 392 17 (t) (t)
Amarillo ... 114 2,623 (*) 1,6111 (*) (*) (* (*I 1,962 (*)
Austin 1301 3,0951 10,136 2,0641 4,141 5,743 15,993 691 2,179 10,241
Baytown .. 13 5,362 (*) 3,528 (( I, ) I *)' (t) (t)
Beaumont 109 3,491 12,902 2,458 5,240 7,975 21,04( 1,419 2,9 15,776
Bellaire 3 3 6 2 4 4 4 (t) (T)
Big Spring... 15 629 (*) 4601 (*) () (* ) (*) (*)
Borger 14 224 773 1161 247 378 1,276 51 2,081 (*)
Brownsville 25 924 1,853 827 1,681 1,493 4,376 268 408 1,650
Brownwood 25 515 1,218 446 888 911 2,0471 1841 () (* )
Bryan ..... 20 330 1,143 207 498 589 2,340 2151 ( (')
Cleburne 17 909 2,007 818 1,6201 1,713 3,2601 1141 320 840
Corpus Christi 129 3,981 15,379 2,637 7,296 9,660 34,482 2104 2,651 27,597
Corsicana .. 33 1,813 5,212 1,580 3,115 4,119 8,461' 383 1,365 (*)
Dallas .... 1,206 67,222 269,529 48,445 98,616 166,626 474.2651 17,151 34,137 209.045
Del Rio ..... 7 139 285 122' 226 239 612 8 59 239
Denison 27 1,020 2,911 840 1,675 2,119 9,997 259 972 (*)
Denton 24 1,162 3,286 922 1.8181 2,313 6,868 520 755 4,370
Edinburg.. 10 207 587 135 3621 363 2,024 40 (T) (T)
E1 Paso ..... 170 9,063 28,274 7,436 14,9791 20,847 50,704 16,825 5,0281 28,982
Fort Worth.. 523 39,749 172,123 30.844 61,006! 122,233 284.148! 10,416 30,495[ 133,952
Gainesville . 24 986 2,154 9101 1,795 1,891 3,4521 168 (T)I (T
Galveston . 54 2,822 10,865 2,214 4,208 8,025 20.7471 384 4,103 21,924
Garland 27 3,134 13,020 2,319 4,8521 8,7521 17,885 1,013 (t) (t)
Grand Prairie 31 957 3,475 828 1,677 2,753 6,488 301 (t) (T)
Greenville . 37 1,161 3,008 916 1,827 2.151 4,0551 189 1,090 4,013
Harlingen .. 48 1,303 3,497 847 1,840 1,858 5,921 536 979 4,055
Highland Park 1 (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (t) (T)
Houston ... 1,239 55,198 240,563 40,768 158,183 84.684 158.183 45,306 40,211 256,219
Kingsville .. 42 118 27 52 72 231 28 (ct) ()
Lamesa 13 89 293 71 144 234 620 16 (T) (T)
Laredo 29 735 1,326 584 952 830 2,371 97 682 (*)
Longview .. 35 782 2,755 544 1,122 1,559 5,281 560( 632 2,659
Lubbock . 109 2,646 9,544 1,769 4,016 5,426 21,716 1,989 1,073 6,599
Lufkin ..... 37 2,188 7,975 1,704 3,449 5,408 13,207 464 (*) (*)
McAllen 29 472 964 364 715 657 2,138 68 921 2,125
McKinney .. 8 127 376 70 149 188 662 32 (*) (C)
Marshall . 45 1,967 5,060 1,635 3,292 3,717 9,637 1,238 1,191 3,946
Mercedes . 13 99 212 82 137 166 337 18 (t) (T)
Midland..... 25 322 1,294 172 381 623 2,476 101 (t) (T)
Mission . 5 151 319 136 276 239 571 49 (t) (T)
Nacogdoches 29 1,371 3,635 1,145 2,312 2.439 5,476 564 (t)! (t)
NewBraunfels 20 1,730 5,0381 1,612 3,6211 4,369 9,555 1,141 (t) (t)
Odessa 40 3862 1.534 267 554 939 3,253 63 It) (t)
Orange .... 26 2,455 1,980 (*) (*) (*) (*) (t) (t)
Palestine ... 21 352 729 264 495 483 1,333 83 559 1,819
Pampa ..... 12 176 623 121 271 :381 1,215 53 115 ()
Paris .... 36 1,471 (*) 1,191 (*) (*) (') (*) 1,145 4,638
Pasadena 19 2,032 10,548 1,533 3,449 7,533 24,862 3,301 (t) (t)
Plainview .. 25 555 2,065 366 824 1,071 5,182 202 (t) (t)
Port Arthur . 38 6,465 (*) 5,549 (*) (* ) ( (*) 6,133 (*)
San Angelo.. 73 1,793 4,478 1,504 2,587 3,291 7,726 437 816 4,705
San Antonio. 536 17,603 53,612 12,955 26,662 33,207 110,086 5,017 14,411 62,828
San Benito .. 5 59 182 36 91 92 283 24 (t) (t)
Sherman 3... 2 1,966 7,220 1,354 3,081 4.451 16,442 675 1,615 12,509
Snyder .. (*) (*) (*) (*) () (') (*) (t) (t)
Sweetwater 16 829 (*) 632 (*) (*) (*) (*) 253 (*)
Temple .... 46 1,387 4,156 1,098 2,225 2,778 7,988 348 669 2,995
Terrell 18 857 2,022 750 1,367 1,568 4,393 249 188 736
Texarkanat 39 1,509 3,977 1,187 2,379 2,686 8,561 226 1,145 4,545
Texas City .. 18 7,962 43,293 5,783 11.334 29,746 135,241 27,924 (t) (t)
Tyler 77. 2,825 9,491 2,234 4,354 6,686 19,001 3,607 1,859 9,247
Univ. Park., 1 (*) (*) (*) (*) () (.) (.) (t) (t)
Vernon .... 17 () (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (t) (t)
Victoria 19 368 (*) 229 (") (') (*) (*) 229 (")
Waco ..... 121 6,424 21,858 5,173 10,850 16,266 55,120 1,412 3,703 13,001
Waxahachie . 21 793 2,131 674 1,358 1,671 3,990 100 (t) (T)
White Settlnit 2 (*) () ()1 (*) (*) () (*) (t) (t)
Wichita Falls 841 2,750 9,956 2,063 4,121 6,599 24,030 1,014 2,812 20,452
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