Cleveland named in top five best places in the U.S. to work in manufacturing

The city of Cleveland has been named one of the top five best places in the U.S. to work in manufacturing by financial planning site SmartAsset. Cleveland was named the fifth-best city for manufacturing with manufacturing jobs making up 20.99% of the city’s workforce. The city also ranked 11 in manufacturing job growth year-over-year and the city’s 3.3% unemployment rate also boosted its ranking. The study analyzed 400 metro areas on manufacturing as a percentage of the workforce, job growth, housing costs as a percentage of income, and unemployment. Cleveland ranked behind only Wausau, Wis.; Kalamazoo-Portage, Mich.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and Sioux City in the survey.