Muro North America / Field Tool
Where Each Vertical Lives
Real establishment counts, U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns (2022), real state geography. States with a white dot have verified manufacturer contacts: tap to open.
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Top states, this vertical
Data source: every vertical is ranked directly off our own verified manufacturer
directory (below) -- each state's number is the exact count of individually-verified companies we have
listed there, not a Census estimate, so "best" always means the state with the most confirmed companies,
full stop, no exceptions. We started from U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns (NAICS codes, 2022,
via api.census.gov) and moved off it wherever a broad code buried a real cluster under an unrelated one
in the same code, or didn't fit the vertical at all -- e.g. NAICS 336612 covers all boat building
(yachts, sportfishing, sailboats), which buried Pontoon & Marine's real center of gravity under
Florida and Maine's general boatbuilding volume; NAICS 327120 covers all clay/refractory building
materials, which buried Roofing Tile's real leader under Ohio's industrial-brick volume; Deck & Dock
has no dedicated manufacturer NAICS code at all, since decks and docks are predominantly built by
installers rather than a small set of manufacturers, so we dropped the installer-count proxy entirely and
ranked it the same way as every other vertical -- off real manufacturer locations. Elkhart County,
Indiana is widely documented as the pontoon boat capital of the US (Bennington, Godfrey, Barletta,
Starcraft, Smoker Craft, Harris, J.C. Manufacturing, and SunChaser are all headquartered there);
California and Florida lead clay/concrete roof tile (Eagle Roofing, US Tile, MCA, Westlake Royal, Crown,
Entegra) due to Spanish/Mediterranean-style roofing demand in both states. Coverage is still growing, so
directory counts (and therefore rankings) will keep shifting as more verified companies are added.
Manufacturer contacts are real companies, individually verified via official sites,
industry association directories (NTEA, etc.), BBB, chambers of commerce, and Muro's own outreach
records, never generated. Most rows
have a full street address and phone; some (pulled from bulk directory listings) show city/state only
where a street address wasn't published in the source, never a guessed one.