Manufacturing Economy Monitor
Machinery Manufacturing in Connecticut
Machinery manufacturing added $2.3B of value to Connecticut's economy in 2025, down 0.4% year over year. That ranks Connecticut 27th of 50 states and DC for this industry. It is 5.7% of Connecticut's manufacturing output. Nationally, machinery is a $220B industry (the 4th-largest of the 19 manufacturing subsectors), per the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Output and rank
- Value added: $2.3B in 2025, #27 of 50 states and DC for this industry.
- Growth: -0.4% year over year.
- Share of Connecticut's manufacturing: 5.7% of the state's total manufacturing value added.
- National context: machinery is a $220B industry nationally, #4 of the 19 manufacturing subsectors (+0.5% year over year).
- Classification: durable goods manufacturing (BEA subsector 333).
Frequently asked questions
- How big is the machinery industry in Connecticut? Machinery added $2.3B of value in Connecticut in 2025, ranking the state 27th of 50 states and DC for this industry, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.
- Is machinery growing in Connecticut? Connecticut's machinery output shrank 0.4% year over year to 2025. The chart above traces the full annual series since 1997.
- What share of Connecticut's manufacturing is machinery? Machinery is 5.7% of Connecticut's total manufacturing value added in 2025, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.
About this data
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (public domain). National quarterly values are seasonally adjusted annual rates. Corporate-profit industry detail reflects inventory valuation adjustment without capital consumption adjustment, per NIPA table 6.16D conventions.
Last reviewed 2026-10-01.