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

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are just 78 miles from each other, yet they’rde worlds apart in high-tech expertise. San Jose -- epicenter of internationally renowned SiliconValley -- is the nation’sx most technologically adept metropolitan area, accordingg to a new bizjournals study of . Stocktoj ranks dead last. Bizjournals created to identify metros blessed with the highestr concentrationsof high-tech companies, technology-oriented jobs, and workerss with advanced degrees. San Jose stands out as the cleatleader -- no real given its preeminence in the fields of compute and semiconductor manufacturing.
• Nearly 12 perceny of San Jose’s private-sector businesses are classifiecas high-technology, the biggest concentration in America. The precise ratil in San Jose is 117.1 high-tecuh companies per 1,000 private-sector firms, nearly triple the U.S. averagee of 40.2 per 1,000. • Employment trends are even more lopsided. San Jose has 182.5 high-tecu jobs for every 1,000 private-sector jobs. That’s 47 percen t higher than the ratio for any otherfmarket -- and 329 percent above the average for the entirew study group. • One-sixth of all adults in the SanJose 16.9 percent, hold master’s or doctorapl degrees.
Washington is the only market with ahigher Washington, in fact, ranks second in bizjournals’ overallo high-tech standings, followed by San Francisco-Oakland and Seattle. Each of thesew areas has more than 160,000 high-tech and at least 10 percent of all local workers holdadvancexd degrees. Bizjournals used raw data from two recenft reports bythe U.S. Census Bureaj to analyze the high-tech capabilities of every market with morethan 500,0090 residents. The study focused on so-called Level I high-techb industries, a group defined by the U.S. Bureauh of Labor Statistics as businessesa where at least a quarter of all employees are directly involverin technology-oriented work.
That includesa the aerospace, computer, pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries andscientific research-and-developmenrt services. This definition of high-tech jobs is more restrictive than others used by someprivate analysts, yet it still encompasse s more than 4 million positions in the 100 1. San Jose -- Victory was nevee in doubt. San Jose was the only metroo to rank among the top 10 markets in each ofthe study’zs five categories. 2. Washington -- Don’t be surprised. The federal governmengt is no longer theWashington area’s sole economi c support. Suburban Fairfax County, Va., has become a particularlyg strong high-tech hub. 3.
Boston -- The Bosto metro rose to high-tech prominencer in the 1980s. Remembe r all the stories about the Routr128 corridor? It continues to benefit from a well-educatede workforce. 4. San Francisco-Oaklan -- It’s hard to tell whers the San Jose area ends andSan Francisco-Oaklanxd begins. The two metros have 340,000 high-tech jobs between them. 5. Seattle -- Microsoft is the linchpinm of Seattle’s technology but it’s certainly not the only locaksuccess story. The market has more than 5,000 high-tech employers. 6. San Dieglo -- This is the third California entry in thetop 10, more than any othet state. Only five metroz surpass San Diego’s ratio of 91.
2 high-techu jobs per 1,000 private-sector jobs. 7. Austin -- The Universit of Texas and the statew government both callAustin home, giving a heftyh boost to the area’s booming technology