Company Index Stats

How many Retail companies are in United States?

There are 493,613 Retail companies in United States as of October 2026, 26.6% of Retail companies worldwide, and 2.2% of all companies in United States.

Companies can carry several industry labels, so counts overlap.

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Rank among countries

#1

for Retail companies

Share of United States

2.2%

of all companies in United States

By Sub-Industry

What Retail companies in United States actually do

These 6 sub-industries account for 35% of the 493,613 Retail companies in United States by label rather than by distinct company. Sub-categories can span adjacent industries, and a company carrying several labels is counted under each.

1Clothing Store
48,968
2Hardware Store
39,317
3Jewelry Store
31,707
4Grocery Store
25,560
5Furniture Store
24,149
6Pharmacy
4,623

By State

How many Retail companies are in each state

Companies with a resolvable US state, ranked by count. Share is of the state-resolved total.

#StateCompaniesShare
1California
52,77911.5%
2Texas
35,4467.7%
3Florida
33,7287.3%
4New York
33,6607.3%
5Pennsylvania
18,2424.0%
6Illinois
16,1983.5%
7Ohio
14,6353.2%
8North Carolina
14,4953.2%
9Michigan
13,6583.0%
10Georgia
13,3032.9%
11New Jersey
12,9522.8%
12Virginia
11,5862.5%
13Massachusetts
11,3222.5%
14Colorado
9,7862.1%
15Arizona
9,5222.1%
16Washington
9,4972.1%
17Wisconsin
9,1902.0%
18Tennessee
8,9612.0%
19Minnesota
8,5331.9%
20Missouri
8,5041.9%
21Indiana
8,1061.8%
22Oregon
7,2581.6%
23Maryland
6,8491.5%
24South Carolina
6,5671.4%
25Alabama
5,6331.2%
26Connecticut
5,6071.2%
27Louisiana
5,2671.1%
28Utah
4,8191.0%
29Oklahoma
4,7031.0%
30Kentucky
4,6931.0%
31Iowa
4,6371.0%
32Nevada
4,5411.0%
33Arkansas
3,8320.8%
34Kansas
3,7920.8%
35Idaho
3,2100.7%
36Maine
3,1150.7%
37New Mexico
3,0530.7%
38New Hampshire
3,0230.7%
39Mississippi
2,8120.6%
40Montana
2,7580.6%
41Nebraska
2,6590.6%
42Hawaii
2,2910.5%
43Rhode Island
1,8840.4%
44Vermont
1,8700.4%
45South Dakota
1,7370.4%
46West Virginia
1,6550.4%
47Delaware
1,6540.4%
48Wyoming
1,5820.3%
49North Dakota
1,2310.3%
50District of Columbia
1,2080.3%
51Alaska
1,2070.3%

Who They Sell To

Retail customer mix in United States

Shares of the customer types we recorded, not of companies: one selling to several counts under each, and one with no customer type recorded is left out entirely.

B2C467,132 (71.0%)
B2B86,159 (13.1%)
D2C75,791 (11.5%)
C2B21,849 (3.3%)
C2C5,499 (0.8%)
B2G1,291 (0.2%)
G2C132 (0.0%)

By Company Size

How big Retail companies in United States are

1-10 employees125,429
11-50 employees17,397
51-200 employees2,800
201-500 employees649
501-1000 employees218
1001-5000 employees258

Retail in other countries

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Methodology

Aggregate counts from the DiscoLike index of 80M+ companies. Companies without a resolvable location are counted under 'unknown', and cells below the minimum count threshold are folded into an 'other' bucket. Industry and business-type categories overlap: a company carrying several labels is counted in each.

Updated monthly. Current snapshot: October 2026. See the full Company Index Stats.

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