Industry Statistics Sampler NAICS 4232 Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers

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Employers: 2002
Table includes only establishments of firms with payroll. Nonemployers are shown below. Introductory text includes scope, methodology, non-sampling error, and confidentiality protection. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.

Indus- try Detail	NAICS code	Description		Estab- lish- ments	Sales ($1,000)	Annual payroll ($1,000)	Paid employees
	42	Wholesale trade		435,521	4,634,755,112	259,653,080	5,878,405
	423	Durable goods merchant wholesalers		260,445	2,171,265,591	157,156,665	3,356,985
	4232	Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers		14,133	71,428,120	6,515,745	163,709
	42321	Furniture merchant wholesalers		6,124	27,797,696	2,682,686	65,755
	42322	Home furnishing merchant wholesalers		8,009	43,630,424	3,833,059	97,954

This NAICS Industry Group includes establishments classified in the following NAICS Industries: 42321, Furniture Merchant Wholesalers; and 42322, Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers.

  NAICS 4232, Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers, is not comparable to 1997 NAICS 4212 Furniture & home furnishing whsle. See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.

For comparisons with data before 1997, see the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.

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Geographic Distribution -- Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers: 2002

Data for the Wholesale trade sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, and places.

Table includes only establishments of firms with payroll. Nonemployers are shown above. Introductory text includes scope, methodology, non-sampling error, and confidentiality protection. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.

Other Indus- tries	Description		Estab- lish- ments	Sales ($1,000)	Sales % of U.S.	Sales per capita ($)	Annual payroll ($1,000)	Paid employees
	United States		14,133	71,428,120	100.00	248	6,515,745	163,709
	California		2,254	10,616,763	14.86	303	1,061,915	28,326
	New York		1,492	8,598,133	12.04	449	753,591	16,445
	Texas		989	5,886,069	8.24	270	461,722	12,220
	New Jersey		681	5,679,939	7.95	662	526,921	10,621
	Georgia		696	5,336,448	7.47	621	327,189	8,363
	Illinois		600	4,562,709	6.39	362	417,902	9,536
	North Carolina		521	3,810,309	5.33	458	227,115	5,629
	Florida		1,135	3,622,597	5.07	217	270,738	8,173
	Pennsylvania		445	2,254,549	3.16	183	222,261	6,129
	Ohio		377	2,191,247	3.07	192	203,601	5,134
	Washington		332	1,633,947	2.29	269	169,224	4,182
	Massachusetts		323	1,533,222	2.15	238	165,849	3,586
	Missouri		214	957,543	1.34	169	87,297	2,487
	Tennessee		211	949,877	1.33	164	102,946	2,767
	Colorado		284	909,330	1.27	202	99,589	2,503
	South Carolina		159	761,976	1.07	186	66,139	2,164
	Alabama		145	383,269	0.54	86	39,490	1,237
	Kentucky		93	292,811	0.41	72	32,273	1,017
	Mississippi		82	291,361	0.41	102	25,447	870
	Kansas		88	269,003	0.38	99	32,493	795
	Louisiana		113	268,845	0.38	60	35,851	1,122
	Arkansas		81	251,892	0.35	93	23,323	704
	Utah		90	245,083	0.34	105	27,264	962
	Iowa		71	223,398	0.31	76	24,336	653
	Maine		47	189,014	0.26	146	30,681	817
	New Mexico		64	121,859	0.17	66	17,694	507
	New Hampshire		55	111,000	0.16	87	12,935	326
	Hawaii		52	106,455	0.15	86	13,065	391
	Nebraska		47	94,140	0.13	55	13,031	396
	Vermont		28	39,849	0.06	65	5,849	183
	Alaska		14	33,735	0.05	53	4,066	136
	Montana		31	33,572	0.05	37	4,154	145
	North Dakota		19	28,580	0.04	45	4,323	148
	South Dakota		14	23,218	0.03	31	2,738	79
	All other states, including those below		2,286	9,116,378	12.76		1,002,733	24,956
	Indiana		189	D			D	(2500-4999)
	Maryland		249	D			D	(2500-4999)
	Michigan		304	D			D	(2500-4999)
	Minnesota		225	D			D	(2500-4999)
	Virginia		283	D			D	(2500-4999)
	Arizona		228	D			D	(1000-2499)
	Connecticut		147	D			D	(1000-2499)
	Oklahoma		98	D			D	(1000-2499)
	Oregon		137	D			D	(1000-2499)
	Wisconsin		165	D			D	(1000-2499)
	Nevada		81	D			D	(500-999)
	Rhode Island		48	D			D	(500-999)
	Delaware		29	D			D	(250-499)
	District of Columbia		41	D			D	(250-499)
	Idaho		26	D			D	(250-499)
	West Virginia		33	D			D	(250-499)
	Wyoming		3	D			D	(1-19)

 

Products Lines for Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers

Product code	Product description	Sales of this line ($000)	Percent of industry sales (%)	Graph
10000	Industry total	71,428,120	100.00
10530	Flooring and floor coverings	18,619,465	26.07
10420	Office and business furniture	15,384,036	21.54
10400	Household and lawn furniture	10,946,720	15.33
10520	Linens, domestics, curtains, and draperies	10,351,038	14.49
10540	Miscellaneous home furnishings	9,158,411	12.82
	-Other	6,968,450	9.76

For more product detail, see the AFF links below for Product Lines

 

Products, Size, and Other Data from the Economic Census -- Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers

Link to pdf	Series number	Title	Link to AFF or Drill-down tables	Contents	Geography
	EC02-00C-BDG	Bridge Between NAICS 2002 and NAICS 1997		Relationships between NAICS 1997 and NAICS 2002 for those industries redefined	US
	EC02-00C-COMP	Comparative Statistics		2002 and 1997 data side by side on a comparable NAICS 1997 basis	US, states
	EC02-42SL-LS	Product Lines		All Types of Operation by Kind of Business & Product Line	US, states, metros
	All Types of Operation by Broad Product Line & Kind of Business	US, states, metros
	Merchant Wholesalers by Kind of Business & Product Line	US, states, metros
	Merchant Wholesalers by Broad Product Line & Kind of Business	US, states, metros
	Manufacturers' Sales Branches & Offices by Kind of Business and Product Line	US, states, metros
	Manufacturers' Sales Branches & Offices by Broad Product Line and Kind of Business	US, states, metros
	EC02-42SS-SZ	Establishment and Firm Size		Sales Size of Establishments	US
	Employment Size of Establishments	US
	Single Units & Multiunits	US
	Sales Size of Firms	US
	Employment Size of Firms	US
	Concentration by Largest Firms	US
	Legal Form of Organization	US
	EC02-42SX-SB	Miscellaneous Subjects		Sales by Class of Customer	US
	Employment by Primary Function	US
	End-of-Year Inventories	US
	Detailed Type of Operation	US
	Gross Margin & its Components for Merchant Wholesalers	US
	Gross Profit & its Components	US
	EC02-42I-11	Industry Series		Preliminary data now superseded	US
	BE02-00I-1	Business Expenses		Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (2002 NAICS Basis)	US
	Relative Standard Errors for Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (2002 NAICS Basis)	US
	EC02-42A	Geographic Area Series		Summary Statistics	US, states, counties, metros

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Data from the Other Census Bureau Programs -- NAICS 4232

Hypertext Tables	Title (with link to data)	Frequency	Contents	Geography
	Annual Benchmark Report for Wholesale Trade	Annual	Monthly sales and inventories back to 1992	US
	County Business Patterns	Annual	Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment	US, states, metro areas, counties
	E-Commerce Statistics	Annual	Total sales and e-commerce sales, receipts or value of shipments	US
	Monthly Wholesale Trade	Monthly	Monthly sales, inventories, and inventory/sales ratios for merchant wholesalers	US
	Nonemployer Statistics	Annual	Number of establishments and sales of firms with no paid employees	US, states, metro areas, counties
	Statistics of U.S. Businesses	Annual	Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise	US, states, metro areas

For more data sets, check a broader NAICS category, such as NAICS 423

 

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