NAICS 443 Electronics Store Statistics: Publishers, Depth, and 2026 Figures

NAICS 443 is the North American Industry Classification System code for Electronics and Appliance Stores: retailers whose primary line is selling consumer electronics and household appliances out of stores. Two six-digit national industries sit beneath it - 443141 household appliance stores and 443142 electronics stores - so a statistic quoted "at NAICS 443" reads either as the whole sector or at each specialty line.

The publisher of record is the U.S. Census Bureau, whose retail program treats 443 as a first-class breakout rather than a lump line. The consolidated sales workbook carries five electronics-relevant rows: 442,443 (furniture, home furnishings, electronics and appliance stores), 443 (electronics and appliance stores), 443141 household appliance stores, 443142 electronics stores, and 4541 electronic shopping and mail-order houses. Inside Datadory's Computer & Electronics Retail pool of 14 datasets (4 primary, 10 related), the U.S. Census Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS/MARTS) - Electronics & Appliance Stores is the measurement layer, and its quality score of 10 is a mark shared by just 145 of the 1,744 datasets in the full catalog.

Who actually uses it: Datadory's tagging scores MRTS at relevance 3 for four of the eight tracked personas - data scientists modeling demand, investors and quants trading the release cycle, market researchers sizing the category, and e-commerce operators planning inventory and promotions.

January 1992 for monthly sales and 1992 for matching inventories - roughly three and a half decades of monthly observations per line, one sheet per year. Companion depths differ: quarterly e-commerce detail currently reaches Q1 2018 in the supplement tables, and the experimental Monthly State Retail Sales product adds modeled year-over-year changes for 50 states plus DC from January 2019. Advance-report archives predate the survey itself.

Verified against the June 2026 sheet of the sales workbook: preliminary not-adjusted sales of $7,769 million for 443 overall, against $45,113 million collected year-to-date, with the adjusted block showing July 2026 at $8,152 million. Seasonality is strong enough that the two blocks diverge sharply - nadjusts.txt puts December's factor for 443 at 1.376 against a February low of 0.877, so December trades roughly 38 percent above a normal month before adjustment.

Each published row, from the June 2026 preliminary not-adjusted print: