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Context

The Monthly State Retail Sales (MSRS) is the Census Bureau's new experimental data product featuring modeled state-level retail sales. This is a blended data product using Monthly Retail Trade Survey data, administrative data, and third-party data. Year-over-year percentage changes are available for Total Retail Sales excluding Non-store Retailers as well as 11 retail North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) retail subsectors. These data are provided by state and NAICS codes beginning with January 2019.

Content

Geography: US

Time period: 2019 - 2022

Unit of analysis: US Census Bureau's Monthly State Retail Sales Data

Variables

Variable	Description
fips	2-digit State Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code. For more information on FIPS Codes, please reference this document. Note: The US is assigned a "00" State FIPS code.
state_abbr	States are assigned 2-character official U.S. Postal Service Code. The United States is assigned "USA" as its state_abbr value. For more information, please reference this document.
naics	Three-digit numeric NAICS value for retail subsector code.
subsector	Retail subsector.
year	Year.
month	Month.
change_yoy	Numeric year-over-year percent change in retail sales value.
change_yoy_se	Numeric standard error for year-over-year percentage change in retail sales value.
coverage_code	Character values assigned based on the non-imputed coverage of the data.

Variable	Description
coverage_code	Character values assigned based on the non-imputed coverage of the data.
coverage	Definition of the codes.

Acknowledgements

Datasource: United States Census Bureau's Monthly State Retail Sales

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This statistic shows the year-over-year growth of total retail sales in the United States from 2002 to 2023, with a forecast for 2024. In 2023, total retail sales grew by approximately 3.6 percent compared to the previous year. In 2024, the conservative estimate for annual retail sales growth was 2.5 percent.

Key information about United States Retail Sales Growth

• United States Retail Sales grew 4.1 % YoY in Sep 2025, compared with a 4.9 % increase in the previous month.
• US Retail Sales Growth YoY data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1993 to Sep 2025, with an average growth rate of -8.8 %.
• The data reached an all-time high of 42.0 % in Apr 2021 and a record low of -15.8 % in Apr 2020.
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United States RS: ARTS: MS: Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers data was reported at 75.980 USD bn in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 70.943 USD bn for 2017. United States RS: ARTS: MS: Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers data is updated yearly, averaging 50.527 USD bn from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2018, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 75.980 USD bn in 2018 and a record low of 21.460 USD bn in 1992. United States RS: ARTS: MS: Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.H003: Retail Sales: Annual Retail Trade Survey: NAICS.

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