About Logistics Industry Health

The movement of goods is of central importance to the production of goods. Without a robust logistics industry, manufacturing and commodity production will not occur. Logistics comprises not merely the capacity to move goods, but to store inventory and manage the distribution and processing of manufactured goods. Logistics firms depend upon many of the same factors as manufacturing firms in their location decision, but there is a more complex interplay between local conditions and the existing or planned transportation networks of roads, railroads, waterways, and airports.

To measure the health of the logistics industry, we include the share of total logistics industry income as a share of total state income, and the employment per capita. We also include commodity flows data by both rail and road. To this we measure infrastructure spending as the per capita expenditure on highway construction.

Sources: U.S. Department of the Census, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and U.S. Department of Transportation Center for Transportation Statistics.

2020 Logistics Industry Health

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State	Grade
Alabama	C
Alaska	C-
Arizona	D
Arkansas	C
California	B-
Colorado	C-
Connecticut	D
Delaware	D-
Florida	C+
Georgia	B
Hawaii	F
Idaho	D
Illinois	A
Indiana	B+
Iowa	B
Kansas	C+
Kentucky	A
Louisiana	B
Maine	D-
Maryland	D
Massachusetts	D
Michigan	C
Minnesota	B+
Mississippi	C
Missouri	C
Montana	C-
Nebraska	B
Nevada	D
New Hampshire	F
New Jersey	C+
New Mexico	F
New York	C
North Carolina	C
North Dakota	B
Ohio	A
Oklahoma	B-
Oregon	D+
Pennsylvania	A
Rhode Island	F
South Carolina	C-
South Dakota	C
Tennessee	C
Texas	A
Utah	C-
Vermont	F
Virginia	C
Washington	C
West Virginia	C-
Wisconsin	B
Wyoming	C

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