Industry · NAICS 4441

Building material and supplies dealers (hardware, home centers)

The United States has 55,545 employer establishments in building material and supplies dealers (hardware, home centers) (1.6 per 10,000 residents), employing 1,248,320 people at an average annual pay of $39,021, plus 29,615 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
55,545
29,615 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
1.6
Paid employees
1,248,320
Average annual pay
$39,021

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places
State
Size
Building material and supplies dealers (hardware, home centers) by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1El Centro, CA180,6831412,9060.80.47×467$35,08822
2Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV2,351,00819312,1810.80.50×6,155$41,793222
3San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX2,719,89223911,3800.90.53×7,889$36,887217
4Urban Honolulu, HI989,6988811,2470.90.54×2,569$39,25855
5Anderson Creek, NC141,7721310,9060.90.56×271$33,86312
6Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV6,328,73059310,6720.90.57×18,851$38,859407
7Kenosha, WI167,8521610,49110.58×436$33,7418
8Merced, CA294,3192910,14910.60×881$30,21213
9Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV305,789319,86410.61×1,000$33,48421
10Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA4,707,4484789,84810.62×13,811$37,300424
11Stockton-Lodi, CA806,055829,83010.62×2,279$44,24446
12Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL824,794849,81910.62×2,735$30,98085
13Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX7,587,6467769,77810.62×21,495$38,425878
14Yuma, AZ214,228229,73810.62×665$35,50414
15Visalia, CA480,816529,2461.10.66×1,564$36,64826
16Yuba City, CA184,402209,2201.10.66×555$38,88115
17Lumberton, NC118,005139,0771.10.67×340$35,9417
18Vallejo, CA451,377509,0281.10.67×1,518$39,50926
19Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX8,164,1409059,0211.10.67×26,401$37,111765
20Fresno, CA1,188,9361329,0071.10.67×3,171$39,39679
21Wildwood-The Villages, FL151,889178,9351.10.68×464$29,74610
22Fayetteville, NC392,345448,9171.10.68×1,413$39,10612
23Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX2,498,8092838,8301.10.69×8,700$39,540178
24El Paso, TX876,6411008,7661.10.69×2,257$33,087134
25Columbus, GA-AL323,962378,7561.10.69×987$35,44116

1–25 of 398 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

  • Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
  • Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
  • This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
  • County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
  • Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $431.9M on contracts under NAICS 4441 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (197,333 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$328.6M76%
    152,044 awards
  2. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$91.8M21%
    40,815 awards
  3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$3.7M0.9%
    60 awards
  4. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL$1.8M0.4%
    1,272 awards
  5. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$1.5M0.3%
    37 awards
  6. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL$366.6K0.1%
    2,371 awards
  7. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA$317.4K0.1%
    24 awards
  8. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ$271.9K0.1%
    4 awards
  9. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD$256.1K0.1%
    66 awards
  10. New Orleans-Metairie, LA$241.5K0.1%
    46 awards

Counties

  1. Lake County, IL$328.6M76%
    152,041 awards
  2. Suffolk County, NY$90.9M21%
    40,776 awards
  3. Tarrant County, TX$3.7M0.9%
    37 awards
  4. Rock Island County, IL$1.8M0.4%
    1,272 awards
  5. Fairfax County, VA$719.1K0.2%
    5 awards
  6. Essex County, NJ$596.9K0.1%
    18 awards
  7. District of Columbia, DC$364.1K0.1%
    4 awards
  8. Maricopa County, AZ$271.9K0.1%
    4 awards
  9. Palm Beach County, FL$228.4K0.1%
    2,349 awards
  10. Jefferson Parish, LA$224.6K0.1%
    44 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Lake Forest city, IL$260M60%
    152,041 awards
  2. Melville CDP, NY$82.5M19%
    40,760 awards
  3. Mettawa village, IL$27.9M6.5%
    152,041 awards
  4. Lincolnshire village, IL$7.7M1.8%
    152,041 awards
  5. West Hills CDP, NY$6.1M1.4%
    40,757 awards
  6. Dix Hills CDP, NY$2M0.5%
    40,756 awards
  7. Rock Island city, IL$1.6M0.4%
    1,272 awards
  8. Fort Worth city, TX$1.2M0.3%
    37 awards
  9. Reston CDP, VA$680.9K0.2%
    3 awards
  10. Benbrook city, TX$539.6K0.1%
    14 awards

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)