US states by GDP by industry: retail trade
California had the highest GDP by industry: retail trade of 51 states in 2018, at $161.98 billion. District of Columbia had the lowest, at $1.77 billion. The median was $15.23 billion and the figure for the United States was $1.22 trillion. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Map of states, 2018
- Under 4,000
- 4,000 to 10K
- 10K to 15K
- 15K to 22K
- 22K to 38K
- 38K and over
All states, 2018
Full ranking
| Rank | States | 2018 | Change on 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 161,980.3 | +2.6% |
| 2 | Texas | 104,145.9 | +4.2% |
| 3 | Florida | 81,556.8 | +4.6% |
| 4 | New York | 79,889.1 | +3.3% |
| 5 | Washington | 53,301.5 | +10.6% |
| 6 | Illinois | 46,305.7 | +3.7% |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | 42,589.4 | +4.1% |
| 8 | Ohio | 41,208.9 | -0.4% |
| 9 | New Jersey | 38,592.4 | +2.9% |
| 10 | Georgia | 35,560.5 | +5% |
| 11 | Michigan | 33,447.9 | +4.4% |
| 12 | North Carolina | 31,977.8 | +4.4% |
| 13 | Virginia | 28,415.3 | +2.9% |
| 14 | Tennessee | 27,128.6 | +5.6% |
| 15 | Arizona | 25,776.2 | +2.6% |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 24,659.3 | +5.1% |
| 17 | Indiana | 21,851.5 | +2.5% |
| 18 | Maryland | 21,552.1 | +2.2% |
| 19 | Minnesota | 21,491.1 | +3.4% |
| 20 | Colorado | 21,249.6 | +4.7% |
| 21 | Missouri | 20,523.3 | +3.1% |
| 22 | Wisconsin | 20,032.5 | +3.5% |
| 23 | Louisiana | 16,891 | -1.6% |
| 24 | South Carolina | 16,782.2 | +7% |
| 25 | Alabama | 15,798.3 | +3.4% |
| 26 | Connecticut | 15,233.1 | +4.1% |
| 27 | Utah | 13,703.1 | +6.5% |
| 28 | Oregon | 13,571 | +5.6% |
| 29 | Kentucky | 13,137.8 | +2.3% |
| 30 | Nevada | 12,537.5 | +6.1% |
| 31 | Oklahoma | 12,015 | +3.7% |
| 32 | Kansas | 10,731.9 | +1.8% |
| 33 | Iowa | 10,663.3 | +2.2% |
| 34 | Arkansas | 9,583.8 | +2.6% |
| 35 | Mississippi | 9,411.2 | +1.1% |
| 36 | Nebraska | 6,949.4 | +0.2% |
| 37 | Idaho | 6,788.5 | +10.6% |
| 38 | Hawaii | 6,510.9 | +6.1% |
| 39 | New Mexico | 6,236.4 | +5.1% |
| 40 | New Hampshire | 6,122.6 | +3.4% |
| 41 | Maine | 5,561.6 | +4% |
| 42 | West Virginia | 5,491.2 | +1.5% |
| 43 | South Dakota | 3,792.2 | +1.7% |
| 44 | Montana | 3,609.3 | +4.6% |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 3,607.6 | +6.2% |
| 46 | North Dakota | 3,310.3 | +1.8% |
| 47 | Delaware | 3,119.3 | +3.2% |
| 48 | Vermont | 2,682.5 | +3.6% |
| 49 | Alaska | 2,522.2 | +3.9% |
| 50 | Wyoming | 2,184.1 | +0.8% |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 1,766.8 | +3.9% |
Other periods
About this ranking
Value added by retail trade (NAICS 44-45), the industry's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), in millions of current US dollars. United States and states: Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP by state, table SAGDP2, line 35.
Value added is sales minus the cost of goods sold and other inputs, so it is much smaller than retail sales. Millions of current US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; for real growth of the whole economy use gdp_growth. Industries are the sectors of the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), counted where production takes place. The 20 sector values of a place add up to its gdp_usd, apart from rounding. BEA leaves out values that would disclose a single company, marked (D), and values below $50,000, marked (L); they are missing here, not zero.
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. Bureau of Economic Analysis. SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Retail trade (NAICS 44-45), millions of current dollars. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.Citation styles
APA 7
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. (2026). SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Retail trade (NAICS 44-45), millions of current dollars (US states by GDP by industry: retail trade, 2018) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip
MLA 9
SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Retail trade (NAICS 44-45), millions of current dollars, US states by GDP by industry: retail trade, 2018. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 30 Sept. 2026, https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/gdp-by-industry-retail-trade/us-states?period=2018. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
Chicago (author-date)
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. 2026. SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Retail trade (NAICS 44-45), millions of current dollars. US states by GDP by industry: retail trade, 2018. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/gdp-by-industry-retail-trade/us-states?period=2018.
Harvard
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (2026) SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Retail trade (NAICS 44-45), millions of current dollars, US states by GDP by industry: retail trade, 2018 [Dataset]. Available at: https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/gdp-by-industry-retail-trade/us-states?period=2018 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
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Which state has the highest GDP by industry: retail trade?
California, with $161.98 billion in 2018, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Which state has the lowest GDP by industry: retail trade?
District of Columbia, with $1.77 billion in 2018.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Retail trade (NAICS 44-45), millions of current dollars. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
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