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Retail trade: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Retail trade. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Employment by industry by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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National value: 10.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 4.2 %
RI 10.3 %
DE 12.3 %
CT 10 %
NJ 10.6 %
MD 8.7 %
MA 9.2 %
VT 11.2 %
NH 10.9 %

Lowest: 4.2 to 10.1 %
Group 2: 10.1 to 10.7 %
Group 3: 10.7 to 11.1 %
Group 4: 11.1 to 11.6 %
Highest: 11.6 to 13.6 %

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. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Arkansas	13.6
2	Maine	12.7
3	Delaware	12.3
4	Arizona	11.8
4	Idaho	11.8
4	Iowa	11.8
4	Oklahoma	11.8
8	Mississippi	11.7
8	North Dakota	11.7
10	Florida	11.6
10	Oregon	11.6
10	South Dakota	11.6
10	Washington	11.6
14	South Carolina	11.5
15	Georgia	11.4
15	West Virginia	11.4
17	Alabama	11.3
17	Tennessee	11.3
17	Wisconsin	11.3
20	Vermont	11.2
21	Kansas	11.1
21	Missouri	11.1
21	New Mexico	11.1
24	Kentucky	11
24	Texas	11
26	New Hampshire	10.9
27	Nevada	10.8
27	North Carolina	10.8
29	Louisiana	10.7
29	Michigan	10.7
29	Utah	10.7
29	Wyoming	10.7
33	Minnesota	10.6
33	New Jersey	10.6
33	Ohio	10.6
36	Indiana	10.5
36	Pennsylvania	10.5
38	Alaska	10.4
38	Hawaii	10.4
40	Rhode Island	10.3
41	Colorado	10.1
42	Connecticut	10
43	Montana	9.9
44	California	9.8
44	Illinois	9.8
44	Nebraska	9.8
47	Virginia	9.4
48	New York	9.3
49	Massachusetts	9.2
50	Maryland	8.7
51	District of Columbia	4.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by retail trade (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-retail-trade/

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