A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Tumakuru has 26,470 manufacturing MSMEs. 36.8% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
74% of registered enterprises are in services while 26% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 69% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Tumakuru, which ranks 9 of 31 in Karnataka for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 51.2 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 4.6% and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,59,261.