Industry · NAICS 4431

Electronics and appliance stores

The United States has 19,048 employer establishments in electronics and appliance stores (0.6 per 10,000 residents), employing 196,557 people at an average annual pay of $43,352, plus 34,009 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments: 19,048; 34,009 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 0.6
Paid employees: 196,557
Average annual pay: $43,352

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

Electronics and appliance stores by residents per establishment
#	Place					vs US
1	Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	368,327	8	46,041	0.2	0.38×	60	$32,333	21
2	Visalia, CA	480,816	12	40,068	0.2	0.44×	90	$30,600	23
3	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	917,599	24	38,233	0.3	0.46×	325	$42,963	90
4	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	164,104	5	32,821	0.3	0.54×	38	$74,921	13
5	Merced, CA	294,319	9	32,702	0.3	0.54×	45	$25,333	27
6	Fresno, CA	1,188,936	37	32,133	0.3	0.55×	485	$45,097	96
7	Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ	249,100	8	31,138	0.3	0.57×	67	$29,970	16
8	Hilo-Kailua, HI	207,476	7	29,639	0.3	0.60×	30	$41,467	11
9	Albany, GA	145,548	5	29,110	0.3	0.61×	26	$14,615	15
10	Topeka, KS	232,355	8	29,044	0.3	0.61×	76	$32,118	4
11	Stockton-Lodi, CA	806,055	28	28,788	0.3	0.61×	193	$37,347	67
12	Yakima, WA	257,314	9	28,590	0.3	0.62×	90	$43,556	16
13	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	824,794	29	28,441	0.4	0.62×	281	$33,637	112
14	Morgantown, WV	141,509	5	28,302	0.4	0.62×	66	$33,742	8
15	Greensboro-High Point, NC	791,773	28	28,278	0.4	0.63×	300	$39,030	61
16	Las Cruces, NM	225,966	8	28,246	0.4	0.63×	118	$24,161	14
17	Vallejo, CA	451,377	16	28,211	0.4	0.63×	254	$39,000	31
18	Greeley, CO	360,971	13	27,767	0.4	0.64×	98	$39,092	25
19	Hammond, LA	138,101	5	27,620	0.4	0.64×	63	$38,238	7
20	York-Hanover, PA	466,068	17	27,416	0.4	0.64×	167	$33,533	32
21	Gainesville, GA	218,510	8	27,314	0.4	0.65×	58	$38,845	27
22	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	428,906	16	26,807	0.4	0.66×	165	$32,103	63
23	Gulfport-Biloxi, MS	422,383	16	26,399	0.4	0.67×	146	$24,158	14
24	Tallahassee, FL	394,551	15	26,303	0.4	0.67×	145	$32,310	24
25	Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA	312,656	12	26,055	0.4	0.68×	41	$30,415	14

1–25 of 373 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 $134M on contracts under NAICS 4492, 4431 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (726 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

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)

See open recompetes in NAICS 4492, 4431

In the United States

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Federal contracts in this industry

Metro areas

Counties

Cities and towns