How many sign shops are in the Houston area?

Name: Sign shops in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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161 sign shops

in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 45% larger share of local private employers than they do nationally. The area holds 22.6% of Texas's sign shops.

Shops vs 2023+7.3%11 more shops than 2023

Concentration1.45×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The Houston area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
4	Chicago areaIL-IN	216	—	—	1.37×
5	Atlanta areaGA	208	—	—	1.48×
6	Miami areaFL	175	1,001	$61,945	1.01×
7	Houston areaTX	161	—	—	1.45×
8	Philadelphia areaPA-NJ-DE-MD	139	—	—	1.23×
9	Phoenix areaAZ	109	—	—	1.17×
10	Tampa areaFL	100	1,226	$62,282	1.33×

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×
Austin area	63	—	—	1.31×
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×

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Houston area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 161 sign manufacturing establishments in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 7 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the Houston area?

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

Does the Houston area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, yes: sign shops make up a 45% larger share of the Houston area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 1.45, 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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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.