Monthly State Retail Sales

Experimental Tables Logo 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 Nonstore 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. The Census Bureau plans to continue to improve the methodology to be able to publish more data in the future.

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Data

August 2025 Monthly State Retail Sales were released on December 17, 2025 and are available in the CSV files and data visualization below. For explanatory materials for these experimental statistics, please visit the Monthly State Retail Sales Overview and the technical documentation. For more information on the content of the data files, please reference the Monthly State Retail Sales Data Dictionary.

August 2025 Monthly State Retail Sales Report: PDF
Not Adjusted State Retail Sales Year-over-Year Percentage Changes: CSV
Standard Errors: CSV
Coverage Measures: CSV
The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data (Project No. P-7506880, Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval number: CBDRB-FY26-004).

Visualization

MSRS Viz

Other Information

September 2025 Monthly State Retail Sales data will be released at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 22, 2026. The MSRS release date schedule is available here.

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