A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Thrissur has 29,789 manufacturing MSMEs. 59.6% 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.
72% of registered enterprises are in services while 28% are in manufacturing. Only 7% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 91% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Thrissur, which ranks 8 of 15 in Kerala for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 55.8 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 7.1% and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,80,931.