Editing Hawthorne, California (section)

==Economy==
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[[File:Iridium-4 Mission (25557986177).jpg|thumb|SpaceX's former headquarters in Hawthorne before its move to [[SpaceX Starbase]] in [[Brownsville, Texas]] in 2024.]]
As of 2022 the city is known as a center for the space industry and hosts numerous space related private companies, industries and startups.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Sarah |first=McBride |date=May 12, 2022 |title=A Sleepy California City Gets the Elon Musk Makeover |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-12/a-sleepy-california-city-gets-the-elon-musk-makeover |access-date=May 25, 2022 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en }}</ref> The relatively large number of aerospace engineers and technicians, history of established aerospace companies, and the presence of [[SpaceX]] has facilitated the development of [[space engineering]] [[Business cluster|industry cluster]] in the city.<ref name=":0" /> According to the city's 2021 [[Comprehensive Annual Financial Report]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=City of Hawthorne FY2021 CAFR |url=https://www.cityofhawthorne.org/home/showpublisheddocument/4623/637818109667030000 |access-date=May 15, 2022 |page=189}}</ref> the top employers in the city are:

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! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
|1
|[[SpaceX]]
|6,094
|-
|2
|[[List of Amazon locations#Fulfillment and warehousing|Amazon Fulfillment Center]]
|1,500
|-
|3
|[[Hawthorne School District]]
|900
|-
|4
|[[Wiseburn Unified School District]]
|394
|-
|5
|City of Hawthorne
|360
|-
|6
|[[Home Depot]]
|340
|-
|7
|[[OSI Systems]]
|280
|-
|8
|[[Expeditors International|Expeditors]]
|260
|-
|9
|[[Teledyne|Teledyne Relays]]
|253
|-
|10
|[[Target Corporation|Target]]
|250
|}
[[File:P-61bs on assembly line - Northrop - 1944.jpg|thumb|P-61s being built by Northrop Corp. during World War II in Hawthorne<ref>Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II,'' p. 94, Cypress, CA 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-9897906-0-4}}.</ref>]]
Besides the current top employers, the following businesses are currently located in Hawthorne:
* [[Century Media Records]], independent rock label.
* [[Tesla, Inc.]] has its design center at the [[Hawthorne Municipal Airport (California)|Hawthorne Municipal Airport]].
* [[Konami Digital Entertainment]] has its US offices in Hawthorne.
* [[ARCH Motorcycle]] is headquartered in Hawthorne.
* [[Mynaric]] has an office and laboratory in Hawthorne.

Previously in Hawthorne:
* [[Mattel]] (formerly), toy manufacturer; originally started in Hawthorne in 1945 and moved to their current facility in nearby [[El Segundo, California]] by 1991.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 20, 1989 |title=Mattel Toys to Move Its Headquarters to El Segundo Site |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-20-me-273-story.html |access-date=March 9, 2017 |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312043324/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-20/local/me-273_1_el-segundo |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Hawthorne Plaza]], a regional shopping center, now closed
* [[The Boring Company]], infrastructure and tunnel construction services company.
* [[Northrop Corporation]], founded in 1939 and headquartered in Hawthorne, became a major manufacturer of aircraft during World War II, as well as a major subcontractor to other aircraft companies. [[Jack Northrop]] developed his famous flying wings, which ultimately led to the [[B-2 stealth bomber]]. Northrop also produced the [[P-61 Black Widow]] fighter in its Hawthorne plant, which was on the south side of Northrop Field (present-day Hawthorne Airport). The facility was, for some time, used as an aircraft plant, producing fuselage sections for [[Boeing]] 747s and 787s.<ref>Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II'', pp. 93–106, Cypress, CA, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-9897906-0-4}}.</ref> The building is currently used as the headquarters and main factory of [[SpaceX]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Belfiore |first=Michael |date=January 20, 2012 |title=Inside SpaceX: We Visit the Company's California Headquarters |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/inside-spacex-we-visit-the-companys-california-headquarters |access-date=January 7, 2019 |website=Popular Mechanics |language=en-US |archive-date=July 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706135702/http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/inside-spacex-we-visit-the-companys-california-headquarters |url-status=live }}</ref>