5 BUSIEST HUBS Port San Antonio
501-1,000 0-100 101-200 WHERE THE TECH WORKERS ARE 201-500
SAN ANTONIO’S
According to the 2022 Tech Bloc study, the US 281 North corridor between Loop 1604 and the Alamo Heights area has the second-highest concentration of IT professionals among tech industry hubs outside downtown San Antonio as of 2019. TECH HUBS
1,001+
Workers:
1
ZIP codes: 78226, 78225, 78236, 78241 US 281 North ZIP codes: 78216, 78213, 78232, 78258, 78257 Westover Hills/Texas Hwy. 151
281
78257
10
78258
2
1604
78232
78247
ZIP codes: 78238, 78251 3 Rackspace/Windcrest ZIP codes: 78218, 78219 4
78249
78233
78230
2
78216
USAA/I-10/Medical Center ZIP codes: 78229, 78230, 78240 5
421
5
78217
78240
78250
78213 78201
78229
78209
78218
NUMBER OF AREA IT WORKERS
78238
78251
The Tech Bloc report classifies IT workers as those working in tech products or services, identified in specific ZIP codes.
78228
4
3
78201
78234
78219
4,198 WORKERS in ZIP codes 78216, 78232, 78213
78207 78237
78227
78245
1,161 WORKERS in ZIP codes 78258, 78257
78226 78225
90
87
78236
78241
1
SOURCES: TECH BLOC, TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION/COMMUNITY IMPACT
410
the number of civilian IT profession- als increased by more than 50% over the past dozen years,” Stefl and Butler said in the 2022 report. Citywide growth According to the Tech Bloc study, while tech startup activity and employment tend to cluster in geo- graphic hot spots in some cities, development and population trends in San Antonio have largely spurred clustering of IT businesses and employment in certain spots outside of the downtown tech hub. Butler and Stefl said the US 281 North corridor from Stone Oak through Alamo Heights contains one of the highest levels of IT employ- ment, with ZIP codes 78230, 78232, 78216 and 78249 each home to more than 1,000 IT professionals as of 2019. ZIP code 78258 had between 501-1,000 IT professionals, the report said. “That crescent between Loop 410
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According to the Tech Bloc report, employment in computer services, such as design and programming, has risen from 34% of the overall tech economy in 2010 to 41% in 2020, and the average area IT salary increased from $43,539 in 2000 to $88,017 in 2020. Also, the number of IT products and services employees rose from 11,475 in 2000 to 20,718 in 2020. But Heard—who is also the chief marketing officer of tech firm Secure- Logix Corp., located near Hill Coun- try Village—urged collective private and public sector efforts to boost the local tech talent pipeline to further nourish San Antonio’s IT workforce and overall economy. “We’re generating more economic activity, and there are more efforts
to activate the startup ecosystem, but we’re not where we need to be. We need more tech talent here,” Heard said. Info tech’s rise Authored by Trinity University Professors Emeritus Richard Butler and Mary Stefl, the Tech Bloc report contains data reflecting the economic strength of local IT sectors, such as cybersecurity, private and public sec- tor cloud computing, digital retail and commerce, financial service and com- pliance technology, and Software-as- a-Service, such as Dura Software’s SecureVideo telehealth platform.
Key findings in the report show varying increases in the local com- puter services employment rate, total economic value of local computer services, the number of IT products and services, and IT-related salaries since 2010 as well as IT’s total eco- nomic impact climbing from $3.4 bil- lion in 2000 to $10.8 billion in 2020. Butler and Stefl estimated more than 48,000 IT professionals worked in San Antonio’s private and federal/ military sectors in 2020, compared with 34,377 IT professionals identified in a 2014 study of the local tech econ- omy—a 39.6% increase over six years. “It’s also important to note that
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