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The Silicon Forest, the tech and semiconductor corridor running from Beaverton to Hillsboro, anchors the region's manufacturing base, with Intel operating its largest campus in Hillsboro and employing thousands in chip design and fabrication. Portland proper adds Nike's world headquarters, Tektronix, and a cluster of electronics and instrumentation firms that grew out of the same hardware lineage as printers and displays. The Pearl District and Central Eastside Industrial District have absorbed much of the newer software and startup activity, with warehouse space converted into tech offices.

The broader metro lost roughly 8,800 jobs over the past year, a decline concentrated in manufacturing, professional services, and financial services, and among the steepest of any US metro outside Milwaukee and a couple of others. Job gains that did occur clustered in health care, education, and government, sectors oriented toward local demand rather than exports. Population growth has stalled as out-migration offsets natural increase, and housing production has stayed sluggish even as affordability strains households earning under $160,000 a year.

With health care and government now the steadiest sources of local hiring while manufacturing and professional services contract, Portland's service-business demand is shifting toward neighborhoods anchored by hospitals, schools, and public offices rather than the tech corridors of Hillsboro and Beaverton, a split that plumbers, dentists, and HVAC companies need to account for when choosing where to concentrate marketing.