2025 By the Numbers

Spartanburg's Economic Metrics

$3.5B Investment, 1,024 New Jobs

Economic Development in 2025

Downtown Spartanburg 's Growth

Benefits All of Spartanburg County

Talent Gap Analysis 2.0

Building Our Talent Pipeline

Spartanburg: By the Numbers

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Small Metro for Economic Growth

Leading Metro
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Job Market in the U.S.

Job Growth
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Perhaps the most exciting evolution in the last decade is the rise of and genderfluid identities. This is where the trans community and the broader queer culture are beginning to merge again.

Early gay liberation groups, seeking to appear "palatable" to heterosexual society, frequently marginalized transgender people. They viewed trans identities and gender non-conformity as a liability—too radical, too confusing for the public to accept. This created the first major fracture: the understanding that while gay and lesbian people fought for the right to love who they wanted, transgender people fought for the right to be who they were.

Today, that fracture has largely healed into a strategic alliance, but scars remain. The understanding that is now a tenet of mainstream LGBTQ culture, but only after decades of fighting from within.

Perhaps the most exciting evolution in the last decade is the rise of and genderfluid identities. This is where the trans community and the broader queer culture are beginning to merge again.

Early gay liberation groups, seeking to appear "palatable" to heterosexual society, frequently marginalized transgender people. They viewed trans identities and gender non-conformity as a liability—too radical, too confusing for the public to accept. This created the first major fracture: the understanding that while gay and lesbian people fought for the right to love who they wanted, transgender people fought for the right to be who they were.

Today, that fracture has largely healed into a strategic alliance, but scars remain. The understanding that is now a tenet of mainstream LGBTQ culture, but only after decades of fighting from within.