Apparel and accessories store sales
U.S. clothing and clothing accessories stores recorded $280.989 billion in sales in 2022.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Retail Trade Survey, 2022 ↗#Apparel
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Current U.S. apparel retail and e-commerce figures, collected in one place for writers, retailers, students, and anyone following how people buy clothes.
Last updated September 15, 2026. Each figure links to its primary source.
WHAT THIS COVERS
A clear look at apparel retail.
The detailed apparel figures below use the Census Bureau’s latest revised annual tables for clothing and clothing accessories stores, covering 2022. The broader online-retail figures use the latest quarterly Census release, covering the second quarter of 2026. Those are different measures, so they are shown separately.
THE FIGURES
Eight citable stats.
Use the permanent links on each figure when you need a specific number.
Apparel retail sales placed online
E-commerce accounted for $19.783 billion of 2022 sales at clothing and clothing accessories stores.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Retail Trade Survey e-commerce tables, 2022 ↗#Online share of apparel store sales
E-commerce represented about 7.0% of 2022 sales at clothing and clothing accessories stores, calculated from the Census Bureau totals.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Retail Trade Survey e-commerce tables, 2022 ↗#Year-over-year e-commerce growth
Online sales at clothing and clothing accessories stores grew about 6.8% from $18.531 billion in 2021 to $19.783 billion in 2022.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Retail Trade Survey e-commerce tables, 2021-2022 ↗#Clothing store sales
Clothing stores alone accounted for $197.517 billion in 2022 sales, about 70.3% of the apparel and accessories store category.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Retail Trade Survey, 2022 ↗#Family clothing store sales
Family clothing stores recorded $118.835 billion in 2022 sales, the largest detailed segment within clothing stores in the Census tables.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Retail Trade Survey, 2022 ↗#U.S. quarterly online retail sales
Total U.S. retail e-commerce sales reached $340.244 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 12.2% from the same quarter a year earlier.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales, Q2 2026 ↗#Online share of U.S. retail
E-commerce made up 17.1% of seasonally adjusted U.S. retail sales in the second quarter of 2026.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales, Q2 2026 ↗#SOURCES AND METHOD
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The annual figures are reported in millions of dollars in the Census Bureau tables and shown here in billions for readability. Percentages marked as calculated use the linked Census totals, with one decimal place.
U.S. Apparel Retail Statistics: Sales, E-commerce, and Trends.
Andreco B., updated September 15, 2026. https://andrecob.com/apparel-retail-statistics
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