Manufacturing is still king in Mississippi, and in few places is it more apparent than in Jackson County, which is in the top echelon for job growth in the manufacturing sector. Headlight Data recently reported its county-by-county rankings for manufacturing job growth, and Jackson County, known best for Ingalls Shipbuilding and the Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems Center, is ranked 23rd out of 2,746 counties for jmanufacturing ob growth between 2013 and 2014. In that time, Jackson County went from 13,407 to 14,533, a net change of 1,126 jobs. That’s a growth of 8.4 percent. (Source: Headlight Data, July 2015)