bizjournals: San Jose leads as America's top tech center -- bizjournals

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are just 78 miles from each yet they’re worlds apart in high-tech San Jose -- epicenter of internationally renowned SiliconbValley -- is the nation’ most technologically adept metropolitan area, according to a new bizjournals studgy of . Stockton ranks dead last. Bizjournals created to identifhy metros blessed with the highest concentrationsof high-tecg companies, technology-oriented jobs, and workers with advancede degrees. San Jose stands out as the cleareleader -- no real surprise, given its preeminencre in the fields of computer and semiconductor manufacturing.
• Nearly 12 percent of San Jose’ s private-sector businesses are classifiedas high-technology, the biggest concentratiomn in America. The precisre ratio in San Joseis 117.1 high-tech companiews per 1,000 private-sector firms, nearlyu triple the U.S. average of 40.2 per • Employment trends are even more lopsided. San Jose has 182.5 high-tecj jobs for every 1,000 private-sector jobs. That’sa 47 percent higher than the ratip for any othermarkert -- and 329 percent abover the average for the entire studhy group. • One-sixth of all adultxs in the SanJose area, 16.9 percent, hold master’s or doctora l degrees. Washington is the only market with ahighef percentage.
Washington, in fact, ranks second in overall high-tech standings, followed by Boston, San Francisco-Oaklande and Seattle. Each of thesw areas has more than 160,000 high-tech jobs, and at least 10 percenyt of all local workers holdadvancedx degrees. Bizjournals used raw data from two recentt reports bythe U.S. Census Bureau to analyze the high-tech capabilities of everyu market with morethan 500,000 residents. The study focuse on so-called Level I high-tech industries, a group definexd by the U.S. Bureau of Labort Statistics as businesses where at least a quartee of all employees are directly involvedin technology-oriented work.
That includes the aerospace, computer, control-instruments, pharmaceuticalo and semiconductor industries andscientific research-and-development services. This definition of high-techg jobs is more restrictive than others used by someprivates analysts, yet it still encompassezs more than 4 million positions in the 100 1. San Jose -- Victory was never in San Jose was the only metro to rank amongv the top 10 marketsa in each ofthe study’zs five categories. 2. Washington -- Don’t be The federal government is no longer theWashington area’s sole economifc support. Suburban Fairfax County, Va., has become a particularly stronb high-tech hub. 3.
Bostobn -- The Boston metro rose to high-tech prominence in the 1980s. Remember all the storiesd about the Route128 corridor? It continues to benefi from a well-educated workforce. 4. San Francisco-Oaklande -- It’s hard to tell where the San Jose area ends andSan Francisco-Oaklanf begins. The two metros have 340,000 high-tech jobs between 5. Seattle -- Microsoft is the linchpin of Seattle’s technologuy sector, but it’s certainly not the only local success The market has morethan 5,0009 high-tech employers. 6. San Diego -- This is the third Californiaw entry in thetop 10, more than any otheer state. Only five metros surpass San Diego’s ratio of 91.
2 high-tech jobs per 1,000 private-sector 7. Austin -- The Universit y of Texas and the state government both call Austin giving a hefty boosf tothe area’s booming technology sector.