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.
Please email us with any questions or feedback at EID.Monthly.State.Retail@census.gov
December 2023 Monthly State Retail Sales were released on March 28, 2024 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
January 2024 Monthly State Retail Sales data will be released at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The MSRS release date schedule is available here.
For questions or feedback, please email EID.Monthly.State.Retail@census.gov
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-FY24-0004).
