Industry Statistics Sampler
NAICS 444
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

Navigate to another industry
See all sectors

Definition	Data from the Economic Census					Annual, monthly data
	Employers	Nonemployers	Compare to '97	States	Products, Size, etc.

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.
NAICS code	Description	Estab- lish- ments	Sales ($1,000)	Annual payroll ($1,000)	Paid employees

44-45	Retail trade	1,114,637	3,056,421,997	302,113,581	14,647,675
444	Building material & garden equipment & supplies dealers	88,314	246,560,851	30,066,671	1,160,016
4441	Building material & supplies dealers	67,190	215,640,919	26,282,496	988,707
4442	Lawn & garden equipment & supplies stores	21,124	30,919,932	3,784,175	171,309

Nonemployers: 2002
Data based on 2002 Nonemployer Statistics. Table includes only firms subject to federal income tax. Nonemployers are businesses with no paid employees. Introductory text includes scope and methodology. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.
NAICS code	NAICS Title	All firms		Nonemployers				Employers
		Establish- ments	Receipts ($1,000)	Establishments		Receipts		Establish- ments	Sales ($1,000)
		Establish- ments	Receipts ($1,000)	Number	% of all	$1,000	% of all	Establish- ments	Sales ($1,000)

44-45	Retail trade	2,953,629	3,134,317,733	1,838,992	62.3	77,895,736	2.5	1,114,637	3,056,421,997
444	Building material & garden equipment & supplies dealers	118,756	248,886,961	30,442	25.6	2,326,110	0.9	88,314	246,560,851
4441	Building material & supplies dealers	89,002	217,443,786	21,812	24.5	1,802,867	0.8	67,190	215,640,919
4442	Lawn & garden equipment & supplies stores	29,754	31,443,175	8,630	29.0	523,243	1.7	21,124	30,919,932

Definition: NAICS 444 Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

Industries in the Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers subsector retail new building material and garden equipment and supplies from fixed point-of-sale locations. Establishments in this subsector have display equipment designed to handle lumber and related products and garden equipment and supplies that may be kept either indoors or outdoors under covered areas. The staff is usually knowledgeable in the use of the specific products being retailed in the construction, repair, and maintenance of the home and associated grounds.

Historical comparability

NAICS 444, Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers, is comparable between 2002 and 1997.

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

Comparable statistics are not available between 1997 and 2002.

See maps in
Industry
Snapshot

Geographic Distribution -- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers: 2002

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

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

88,314

246,560,851

100.00

856

30,066,671

1,160,016

California

7,009

26,780,341

10.86

765

3,263,804

118,103

Texas

5,532

16,229,031

6.58

746

1,919,202

79,132

Florida

4,663

13,409,608

5.44

804

1,565,672

63,583

New York

4,924

13,251,108

5.37

691

1,667,918

60,203

Illinois

3,454

10,920,265

4.43

867

1,358,320

50,742

Michigan

3,421

9,430,300

3.82

939

1,185,864

43,977

Pennsylvania

3,839

9,237,554

3.75

750

1,137,335

46,388

Ohio

3,669

9,193,289

3.73

805

1,132,537

47,276

North Carolina

2,977

8,485,430

3.44

1,021

946,045

37,736

Georgia

2,541

8,156,287

3.31

949

989,943

37,629

New Jersey

2,252

7,459,596

3.03

870

1,000,718

32,558

Virginia

2,025

6,670,579

2.71

916

778,062

30,789

Massachusetts

1,828

6,140,233

2.49

955

835,870

25,941

Minnesota

2,231

6,117,544

2.48

1,218

701,392

26,903

Wisconsin

2,162

5,921,684

2.40

1,089

750,097

28,947

Indiana

2,353

5,887,353

2.39

957

715,684

29,919

Missouri

2,356

5,359,025

2.17

943

647,336

27,953

Tennessee

1,988

5,311,671

2.15

918

636,199

25,469

Washington

1,879

5,114,667

2.07

843

706,147

24,883

Maryland

1,261

4,824,675

1.96

887

606,129

21,446

Colorado

1,492

4,561,782

1.85

1,014

599,969

22,331

South Carolina

1,487

3,764,391

1.53

918

443,012

18,100

Connecticut

1,121

3,734,636

1.51

1,080

495,946

15,755

Arizona

1,182

3,731,720

1.51

685

475,068

19,164

Iowa

1,705

3,719,065

1.51

1,267

398,807

16,200

Kentucky

1,582

3,641,374

1.48

891

427,377

17,789

Alabama

1,598

3,517,806

1.43

786

399,238

17,806

Louisiana

1,417

3,327,052

1.35

744

376,312

16,932

Oregon

1,288

2,942,542

1.19

835

377,416

13,948

Oklahoma

1,200

2,497,377

1.01

716

289,428

12,935

Kansas

1,183

2,318,089

0.94

854

280,548

12,132

Mississippi

1,025

2,230,135

0.90

779

238,432

10,579

Arkansas

1,095

2,178,543

0.88

805

244,737

10,690

Nebraska

1,022

2,124,233

0.86

1,230

250,379

10,174

Utah

680

1,950,376

0.79

839

245,433

9,559

New Hampshire

628

1,803,193

0.73

1,415

240,593

7,990

Nevada

459

1,705,104

0.69

786

212,872

7,626

Idaho

661

1,460,453

0.59

1,086

174,490

7,090

Maine

635

1,401,721

0.57

1,081

165,139

6,383

West Virginia

632

1,374,597

0.56

762

155,997

6,975

New Mexico

550

1,272,494

0.52

686

157,097

6,649

Montana

612

1,082,131

0.44

1,189

122,371

5,335

South Dakota

523

1,030,795

0.42

1,356

103,520

4,513

Delaware

290

1,018,245

0.41

1,264

120,486

4,315

North Dakota

432

889,205

0.36

1,403

85,372

3,826

Rhode Island

265

768,926

0.31

720

103,488

3,394

Vermont

385

757,382

0.31

1,229

96,741

3,431

Hawaii

255

748,447

0.30

607

90,904

3,605

Wyoming

289

499,057

0.20

1,000

61,104

2,475

Alaska

205

485,135

0.20

757

70,904

2,275

District of Columbia

124,605

0.05

215

19,217

463

Products Lines for Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
Product code	Product description	Sales of this line ($000)	Percent of industry sales (%)
20000	Industry total	246,560,85	100.00
20640	Dimensional lumber & oth bldg/structural materials & supplies	98,955,598	40.13
20600	Hardware, tools, & plumbing & electrical supplies	56,958,660	23.10
20620	Lawn, garden, & farm equipment & supplies	38,191,276	15.49
20670	Paint & sundries	16,382,829	6.64
	-Other	36,072,488	14.63

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

Products, Size, and Other Data from the Economic Census -- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
Series number	Title	Contents	Geography
EC02-00C-COMP	Comparative Statistics	2002 and 1997 data side by side on a comparable NAICS 1997 basis	US, states
EC02-44SL-LS	Product Lines	Product Lines by Kind of Business	US, states, metros
EC02-44SL-LS	Product Lines	Kinds of Business by Broad Product Line	US, states, metros
EC02-44SS-SZ	Establishment and Firm Size	Sales Size of Establishments	US
		Employment Size of Establishments	US
		Single Unit & Multiunit Firms	US
		Sales Size of Firms	US
		Employment Size of Firms	US
		Concentration by Largest Firms	US
		Legal Form of Organization	US
EC02-44SX-SB	Miscellaneous Subjects	Sales by Class of Customer	US
BE02-00I-1	Business Expenses	Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (2002 NAICS Basis)	US
BE02-00I-1	Business Expenses	Relative Standard Errors for Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (2002 NAICS Basis)	US
EC02-44A	Geographic Area Series	Summary Statistics	US, states, counties, metros
SB02-00A	Survey of Business Owners	Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race	US

Down arrows link to tables in "drill-down" format for easy navigation.

AFF icons link to tables in American FactFinder, which supports further manipulation and downloading.

PDF symbols link to reports in Portable Document Format (PDF). In order to view these files, you will need the Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader which is available free from the Adobe web site.

Data from the Other Census Bureau Programs -- NAICS 444
Title (with link to data)	Frequency	Contents	Geography
Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services	Monthly	Estimated monthly sales for retail and food services, adjusted and unadjusted for seasonal variations.	US
Annual Retail Trade Survey: 1992 to [latest year]	Annual	Sales by year, starting with 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 Retail Trade Survey	Monthly	Monthly sales for retail and food services, adjusted and unadjusted for seasonal variations	US
Monthly Trade Inventory and Sales	Monthly	Sales, inventories, and inventory/sales ratios	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 44-45

Top of this page

All-sectors page

Navigate to another industry

Graphic
Industry
Snapshot

Navigate to local data for this sector

Source: 2002 Economic Census Questions?

Skip this navigation

Census Bureau Links: Home · Search · Subjects A-Z · FAQs · Data Tools · Catalog · Census 2010 · Quality · Privacy Policy · Contact Us

Page Last Modified: June 19, 2008

Industry Statistics Sampler NAICS 444 Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

Definition: NAICS 444 Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

Historical comparability

Industry Statistics Sampler
NAICS 444
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers