US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022

Texas had the highest business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census) of 51 states in 2022, at $1.88 trillion. District of Columbia had the lowest, at $6.35 billion. The median was $125.51 billion and the figure for the United States was $11.87 trillion. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest1,884,604.6Texas

Lowest6,350.2District of Columbia

Median125,505.851 states

United States11,870,055.1History

Map of states, 2022

Under 30K
30K to 70K
70K to 130K
130K to 180K
180K to 390K
390K and over

USD million, 2022. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2022

USD million. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2022 USD million
1	Texas	1,884,604.6
2	California	1,575,665.6
3	Illinois	724,499.1
4	New Jersey	583,673.3
5	Florida	578,256.6
6	New York	509,059.6
7	Pennsylvania	411,318.2
8	Georgia	406,249.7
9	Ohio	396,563.8
10	Michigan	378,615.9
11	Massachusetts	299,588.1
12	North Carolina	293,140.9
13	Minnesota	243,421.2
14	Tennessee	217,391.7
15	Washington	213,492.7
16	Missouri	200,351.2
17	Indiana	188,181.8
18	Connecticut	181,834.2
19	Virginia	181,706.9
20	Colorado	174,222.8
21	Kansas	164,542.5
22	Wisconsin	158,451.4
23	Arizona	157,833.9
24	Kentucky	137,316.9
25	Maryland	136,551.7
26	Alabama	125,505.8
27	South Carolina	122,198.7
28	Utah	122,010.2
29	Louisiana	119,324.5
30	Oregon	110,643.9
31	Iowa	109,878.5
32	Arkansas	101,316.2
33	Nebraska	88,743.5
34	Oklahoma	81,716.8
35	Mississippi	55,154.7
36	Idaho	51,463.6
37	Nevada	50,501.2
38	North Dakota	38,198.8
39	Delaware	34,456.4
40	New Hampshire	33,638.9
41	South Dakota	33,361
42	Montana	31,505.8
43	West Virginia	30,137.6
44	Maine	24,961.1
45	Rhode Island	23,448.9
46	New Mexico	22,630.6
47	Hawaii	20,780.4
48	Alaska	13,837.2
49	Vermont	11,751.9
50	Wyoming	10,004.7
51	District of Columbia	6,350.2

Other periods

2022
2017

About this ranking

Sales, value of shipments or revenue of employer establishments in wholesale trade (NAICS 42), in millions of current US dollars, from the U.S. Census Bureau Economic Census.

Economic Census, taken every five years: values exist for 2017 and 2022 only, and the 2027 census publishes about 2029. Revenue of employer establishments located in the place, in millions of current US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; nonemployers (nonemployer_receipts_usd_*) are not included, and government owned establishments are generally out of scope. Manufacturing is the value of shipments and wholesale and retail trade are sales, so an establishment selling to another counts in both and sectors do not add up to output or GDP. Cells that would disclose individual companies (flag D) or that Census does not publish are missing here, not zero; counties are published for 14 of the 18 sectors. Sectors follow NAICS 2017 for 2017 and NAICS 2022 for 2022.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Citation styles

The publisher is the author. Invokely is named only as the place the figures were read, where a style asks for it.

APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2024). Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments (US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip

MLA 9

Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments, US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022. U.S. Census Bureau, 12 Dec. 2024, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-wholesale-trade/us-states. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2024. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments. US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-wholesale-trade/us-states.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2024) Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments, US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-wholesale-trade/us-states (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{census_us_states_by_business_2022,
  author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
  title = {{Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments: US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022}},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-wholesale-trade/us-states. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

RIS

TY  - DATA
AU  - U.S. Census Bureau
TI  - Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments: US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/12
PB  - U.S. Census Bureau
DB  - Invokely
UR  - https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip
L2  - https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-wholesale-trade/us-states
Y2  - 2026/10/12
N1  - Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-wholesale-trade/us-states.
N1  - Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
ER  -

Embed this chart

Paste this code into a web page or a blog post. The chart shows the latest figures as they are published, with the source and a link back to this page.

Embed code

<iframe src="https://invokely.ai/embed/rankings/business-revenue-wholesale-trade/us-states" width="760" height="500" title="US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census), 2022, chart from Invokely" loading="lazy" style="border:0;width:100%;max-width:760px" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"></iframe>

Sites that read oEmbed links, such as WordPress, can show the chart when you paste the link to this page.

Use this data in your AI agent

Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:

Rank US states by business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census) using official data, and cite the source.

rank_places {"indicator":"business_revenue_usd_wholesale_trade","level":"region","within":"United States","limit":10}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=business_revenue_usd_wholesale_trade&level=region&within=United%20States&limit=10

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in one step. The trial answers 25 calls a day without an account.

Questions

Which state has the highest business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census)?

Texas, with $1.88 trillion in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest business revenue: wholesale trade (Economic Census)?

District of Columbia, with $6.35 billion in 2022.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of wholesale trade (NAICS 42), all establishments. Retrieved 2026-10-12.