BAY AREA HOUSTON MAJOR EMPLOYERS & CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS OCTOBER 2025
Super-regional Bay Area Houston comprises 14 cities, including Webster, League City, La Porte, Houston, Clear Lake Shores, Dickinson, Morgan’s Point, El Lago, Friendswood, Kemah, Nassau Bay, Pasadena, Seabrook, and Taylor Lake Village, which span Galveston County and Harris County. The region is home to the Houston Airport System, Port of Houston, and five prominent school districts—Clear Creek ISD, Dickinson ISD, Friendswood ISD, La Porte ISD, and Pasadena ISD. Bay Area Houston is a hub of innovation and opportunity, with several major industry sectors, including aerospace, healthcare, biotechnology, specialty chemicals, tourism, advanced manufacturing, and maritime industries. The establishment of US or regional headquarters by many Fortune 500 companies in Bay Area Houston shows that the region is a top choice for business.
NATIONAL AND GLOBAL COMPANIES WITH U.S. OR REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN BAY AREA HOUSTON AccuZIP Inc. Ad Astra Rocket Company Aerodyne Industries Airbus American National Insurance ARI-Armaturen Axiom Space Baker Hughes Barrios Technology Boeing Calpine Corporation Castle Biosciences Cimarron Energy Collins Aerospace Dashiell Corporation GB Tech Inc Hoyer Global Ineos Intuitive Machines J&P Technologies KBR
Kuraray America Leader Marine Leidos Lockheed Martin MEI Technologies MRC Global Nexxis NOREL Animal Nutrition Northrop Grumman Odyssey Space Research Olympus/Evident Prognost Systems Inc. Rentokil/Terminix SpaceX TracLabs United Fire Group University of Houston - Clear Lake University of Texas Medical Branch Voyager Space Warwick Construction
BAY AREA HOUSTON MAJOR EMPLOYERS 5,000+ EMPLOYEES Clear Creek Independent School District Ellington Field NASA Johnson Space Center Contractors NASA – Johnson Space Center
Pasadena Independent School District The Boeing Company University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
1,000+ EMPLOYEES Abc Professional Tree Service Aker Industrial Constructors Inc. Baybrook Mall Bayshore Medical Center Calpine Corporation Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Dickinson Independent School District HCA Houston Clear Lake
Jacobs La Porte Independent School District LyondellBasell ManTech International Corporation Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital San Jacinto College Walmart Inc.
500 TO 1,000 EMPLOYEES Academy Sports & Outdoors Albemarle Corporation American National Insurance Company Anadarko Industries, LLC City of League City City of Pasadena Clariant Corporation County of Galveston Great Wolf Lodge H-E-B Home Depot Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital
INEOS (Manufacturing) Kaneka North America LLC Katoen Natie USA, Inc. Kemah Boardwalk Kroger Longview Inspection, Inc. Mobley Industrial Services, Inc. Pappas Restaurants Powell Electrical Systems, Inc Rockwood Service Corporation Schwan Food Company University of Houston—Clear Lake
300 TO 500 EMPLOYEES A&L Industrial Services, Inc. Aluma Systems USA Inc. Barrios Technology Berry Holdings, LP Best Buy Blackhawk Management Corp. CCC Group, Inc. CLS Health GHG Corp Global Nutech, Inc. Houston Physicians’ Hospital International Plant Services LLC Kindred Hospital Clear Lake Lockheed Martin Corporation
Lowe’s Home Improvement Oceaneering International, Inc. Perry’s Restaurants Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC S&B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. Sam’s Club SpaceX St. Luke’s Health- Patients Medical Center, Ltd. Sulzer Turbo Services Houston Inc. TASC Target Texas Children’s Hospital Webb Murray & Associates Woman’s Hospital of Texas
BAY AREA HOUSTON MAJOR EMPLOYERS 100 TO 300 EMPLOYEES Ad Astra Air Liquide America L.P. Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals LLC American Furniture Warehouse American General Life Insurance Company ARI-Armaturen Axiom Space Baker Hughes Baker Petrolite Corporation Beck & Masten Gulf Freeway Bei Engineers BP America Inc. Chicken N Pickle Christus Health Christus Health Sports Med Cimarron Aerospace City of Deer Park City of Friendswood City of Houston City of La Porte City of Nassau Bay City of Webster Clear Lake Rehabilitation Hospital, LLC Collins Aerospace Cornerstone Hospital Costco County of Harris Dow Chemical Company DynCorp Enterprise Products FedEx Corporation Fishing Tackle Unlimited Friendswood Independent School District Frito-Lay, Inc.
GB Tech Inc. IBM Corporation J&P Technologies Jacobs JSC Federal Credit Union Keller Williams Realty Kelsey-Seybold Medical Group, PLLC Kindred Hospital Kuraray America Leidos Manned Space Flight Education Foundation Inc. MD Anderson Cancer Center MEI Technologies MRC Global National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Occidental Chemical Corp. Odyssey Space Research Olympus/Evident Orion Construction LP PAM Health Pasadena Refining System, Inc. Phillips 66 Prognost Systems, Inc. Rothe Development, Inc. SAIC Space Center Houston Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Tellepsen Industrial, LLC Texas Gulf Coast Medical Group United Fire Group Valero Refining & Marketing Company Warwick Construction, Inc. Wells Fargo Bank
50-100 EMPLOYEES Barbours Cut Container Transport Castle Biosciences Coastal Flow Measurement, Inc. Dashiell Corporation Dixie Chemical Company, Inc. Hess Corporation Honeywell International Inc. Hoyer Global (USA) Inc. Intuitive Machines Nexxis Inc.
NOREL Animal Nutrition Northrop Grumman NRG Energy Inc. PollyOne Corp PTR Holland Group Rentokil/Terminix Schlumberger Technology Corporation Vida Mariscos Voyager Space