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Food and beverage stores share of retail jobs: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Food and beverage stores share of retail jobs (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Retail trade jobs and pay by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-10
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 44-45, 441, 445, 452, 454 and 00 (all sectors)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 20.8 (United States).

Washington: 21.1Idaho: 17.1Montana: 18.5North Dakota: 15.5Minnesota: 20.6Michigan: 15.9Ohio: 17.8Pennsylvania: 23.3New York: 25.6Vermont: 27.1New Hampshire: 25.3Maine: 24.7Arizona: 16.4California: 21.8New Mexico: 16.4Texas: 20.7Louisiana: 19.4Mississippi: 14.6Alabama: 16.9Florida: 22.6Georgia: 21South Carolina: 21.6North Carolina: 24.7Virginia: 22.3District of Columbia: 38.9Maryland: 23.7Delaware: 18.5New Jersey: 22.8Connecticut: 23.6Rhode Island: 26.6Massachusetts: 29.3Oregon: 21.6Utah: 16.2Wyoming: 16.8Nevada: 17.5Colorado: 19.7South Dakota: 19.8Nebraska: 21.2Kansas: 19.7Oklahoma: 13Iowa: 26.1Missouri: 16.3Wisconsin: 18.2Illinois: 20.1Kentucky: 15.1Arkansas: 15.7Tennessee: 17.6West Virginia: 13.9Indiana: 13.5Alaska: 21.3Hawaii: 22.3

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 13 to 16.4 %
  • Group 2: 16.4 to 18.5 %
  • Group 3: 18.5 to 21.2 %
  • Group 4: 21.2 to 23.6 %
  • Highest: 23.6 to 38.9 %
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: County Business Patterns counts employer establishments only; states' values for small subsectors may be withheld (blank) to avoid disclosing individual businesses.

1District of Columbia38.9
2Massachusetts29.3
3Vermont27.1
4Rhode Island26.6
5Iowa26.1
6New York25.6
7New Hampshire25.3
8Maine24.7
8North Carolina24.7
10Maryland23.7
11Connecticut23.6
12Pennsylvania23.3
13New Jersey22.8
14Florida22.6
15Hawaii22.3
15Virginia22.3
17California21.8
18Oregon21.6
18South Carolina21.6
20Alaska21.3
21Nebraska21.2
22Washington21.1
23Georgia21
24Texas20.7
25Minnesota20.6
26Illinois20.1
27South Dakota19.8
28Colorado19.7
28Kansas19.7
30Louisiana19.4
31Delaware18.5
31Montana18.5
33Wisconsin18.2
34Ohio17.8
35Tennessee17.6
36Nevada17.5
37Idaho17.1
38Alabama16.9
39Wyoming16.8
40Arizona16.4
40New Mexico16.4
42Missouri16.3
43Utah16.2
44Michigan15.9
45Arkansas15.7
46North Dakota15.5
47Kentucky15.1
48Mississippi14.6
49West Virginia13.9
50Indiana13.5
51Oklahoma13

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 44-45, 441, 445, 452, 454 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by food and beverage stores share of retail jobs (%, derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sectors 44-45 (retail trade) and subsectors 441, 445, 452, 454; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-food-and-beverage-stores-share-of-retail-jobs/

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