How many sign shops are in the Louisville area?

Name: Sign shops in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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41 sign shops

in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 33% larger share of local private employers than they do nationally.

Shops vs 20230%0 more shops than 2023

Concentration1.33×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The Louisville area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
33	Las Vegas areaNV	44	1,019	$74,497	1.07×
33	Milwaukee areaWI	44	747	$81,176	1.37×
36	Salt Lake City areaUT	42	—	—	0.97×
37	Louisville areaKY-IN	41	—	—	1.33×
38	Birmingham areaAL	40	—	—	1.77×
39	Grand Rapids areaMI	39	—	—	2.23×
39	Oklahoma City areaOK	39	—	—	1.27×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. The Louisville area crosses state lines (Kentucky, Indiana) and is counted whole. For Kentucky as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the Kentucky page.

Other metro areas in Kentucky

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Cincinnati area	53	—	—	1.25×
Lexington area	10	—	—	0.73×
Bowling Green area	6	—	—	1.53×
Clarksville area	6	—	—	1.25×
Elizabethtown area	6	45	$62,789	2.37×
Huntington area	5	—	—	0.75×
Paducah area	3	3	$38,669	1.28×
Owensboro area	1	—	—	0.42×

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Louisville area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 41 sign manufacturing establishments in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 37 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the Louisville area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the Louisville area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, Kentucky's sign shops paid an average of $64,131 that year.

Does the Louisville area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, yes: sign shops make up a 33% larger share of the Louisville area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 1.33, 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, Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN 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.