The NSF report here has a bunch of tables including the top 20 cities in the United States by the percentage of workers with jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Forbes put that into a gallery of "geeky cities" including Hunstville, AL (in photo) which ranks 4th.
The report goes into plenty of global trends
"Science and technology are no longer the province of developed nations; they have, in a sense, become "democratized." Governments of many countries have firmly built S&T aspects into their development policies as they vie to make their economies more knowledge- and technology-intensive and, thereby, ensure their competitiveness in a globalizing world. These policies include long-term investments in higher education to develop human talent, infrastructure development, support for research and development, attraction of foreign direct investment and technologically advanced multinational firms, and the eventual development of indigenous high-technology capabilities."
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