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Texas was America’s top destination for reshoring in 2025. Here’s an industry breakdown, takeaways from 34,402 announced jobs, and why Houston should lead the way among Texas metros

In April last year, I said that Houston was poised to become a national epicenter for reshored manufacturing jobs. At the time, Harry Moser’s Reshoring Initiative had just ranked Texas #1 among US states as a destination “by domestic companies (and foreign direct investment, or FDI, by foreign-headquartered firms) shifting production or sourcing to the US.” 

Given that one-in-four Texans who work in manufacturing do so in Greater Houston, it wasn’t a stretch to forecast the Gulf Coast would lead the way. 

That remains to be seen, but a first-look at RI’s 2025 reshoring and FDI data confirms that Texas continues to lead the US in announced reshoring jobs by domestic firms and investments by foreign-headquartered firms.

Here’s the data and takeaways:

RI forecasts 232,000 US jobs to be reshored or result from FDI in 2025 – and of those, 34,402 in Texas, announced by 161 companies. Meaning that again, more jobs were inbound into Texas than any other US state – 15% of the national total. 

Takeaway #1 | Reshoring and FDI jobs bound for Texas reached an all-time high in ‘25 – a 28% year-over-year surge and a counterpoint to a national slowdown. RI forecasts a 10% drop year-over-year in total US announced reshoring and FDI jobs, from 258,000 to 232,000. 

Computer & Electronic Products manufacturers led the way, with 61 companies announcing 12,661 reshored/FDI jobs, an average of 270 jobs per company and 37% of total Texas announcements.

Houston faces stiff competition in the burgeoning electronics manufacturing space, notably from metro-Austin, where semiconductor production will fuel one of America’s most dynamic high-tech supply-chains. 

Yet Greater Houston’s electronics ecosystem may surpass even Central Texas – driven by nameplate, global brands already transforming South Texas manufacturing.

Here’s the Texas reshoring/FDI data, by industry and company:

Takeaway #2 | Trends in reshoring and FDI underscore new opportunities for Houston’s industrial base

Factors motivating US companies to reshore jobs and offshore companies to invest in US production are evolving. 

In 2022, Biden-era incentives were the top factor cited in RI data. Think CHIPS & Science Act – “$52 billion in subsidies, grants, and tax credits to boost domestic semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing.”

In 2025, after a full year of Trump administration tariffs and tumultuous trade landscape, companies now look at US production through a different lens:

Takeaway #3 | Biden’s carrots fully give way to Trump’s stick as tariffs and the general uncertainty of managing offshore supply-chains, motivate companies to invest in US production.

RI forecast in November of last year that “National reshoring and FDI announcements are holding steady in 2025 as companies wait for clarity on tariff policy. Some Biden-era incentive–driven projects have been pulled back, while new tariff-motivated announcements are offsetting those losses, leaving total project counts roughly on par with last year.”

That said, proximity to markets, ecosystem synergies, and the positive impact on the domestic economy are powerful incentives to manufacture more in Texas – and Houston.

We'll track how many announcements convert to actual jobs, and not just promise, as the year goes on.

Bart Taylor is executive director of the Greater Houston Manufacturing Association. Reach him at [email protected].