How many sign shops are in the Austin area?

Name: Sign shops in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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63 sign shops

in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 31% larger share of local private employers than they do nationally. The area holds 8.8% of Texas's sign shops.

Shops vs 2023-4.5%3 fewer shops than 2023

Concentration1.31×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The Austin area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
18	Washington areaDC-VA-MD-WV	74	—	—	0.54×
20	Charlotte areaNC-SC	73	—	—	1.18×
21	San Francisco areaCA	66	—	—	0.47×
22	Austin areaTX	63	—	—	1.31×
23	San Antonio areaTX	62	—	—	1.68×
24	Nashville areaTN	58	—	—	1.19×
24	Riverside areaCA	58	807	$62,931	0.56×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. For Texas as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the Texas page.

Other metro areas in Texas

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Dallas area	230	—	—	1.73×
Houston area	161	—	—	1.45×
San Antonio area	62	—	—	1.68×
El Paso area	14	76	$49,253	1.32×
McAllen area	12	102	$42,397	1.36×
Lubbock area	10	67	$41,104	1.66×
Beaumont area	9	—	—	1.73×
Longview area	8	—	—	1.76×

Sign permits in Austin

Every city in the area permits signs under its own code. For Austin, PrinterFlo's summary of the Austin sign code covers which signs need a permit, the size and height limits, and what the city checks before a sign goes up.

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Austin area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 63 sign manufacturing establishments in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 22 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the Austin area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the Austin area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, Texas's sign shops paid an average of $62,930 that year.

Does the Austin area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, yes: sign shops make up a 31% larger share of the Austin area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 1.31, where 1.00 is the national share).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), annual averages, private ownership, NAICS 339950 Sign Manufacturing, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area, 2024 and 2023 annual averages, read September 24, 2026. 2024 is the latest year the BLS has published for metro areas. Concentration is the BLS location quotient for establishments. Ranks computed from the 383 metro areas with a published count; tied areas share a rank.