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Total retail sales, 2012 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Alameda
20,901,014
Alpine
576
Amador
321,498
Butte
2,576,900
Calaveras
252,345
Colusa
127,885
Contra Costa
11,847,866
Del Norte
192,759
El Dorado
1,597,758
Fresno
9,117,752
Glenn
191,222
Humboldt
1,759,201
Imperial
1,676,853
Inyo
229,032
Kern
8,640,550
Kings
1,031,953
Lake
522,337
Lassen
215,837
Los Angeles
121,389,378
Madera
1,012,856
Marin
5,087,526
Mariposa
102,452
Mendocino
1,095,233
Merced
1,959,473
Modoc
45,741
Mono
139,784
Monterey
4,457,401
Napa
1,699,004
Nevada
1,012,263
Orange
45,193,625
Placer
6,437,879
Plumas
139,325
Riverside
25,058,857
Sacramento
15,227,280
San Benito
345,195
San Bernardino
24,380,486
San Diego
39,786,069
San Francisco
14,632,652
San Joaquin
7,059,491
San Luis Obispo
3,624,029
San Mateo
11,330,620
Santa Barbara
4,853,808
Santa Clara
40,336,741
Santa Cruz
4,367,955
Shasta
2,507,063
Sierra
5,072
Siskiyou
426,654
Solano
5,106,627
Sonoma
6,016,331
Stanislaus
5,933,581
Sutter
1,069,489
Tehama
654,574
Trinity
72,655
Tulare
3,903,527
Tuolumne
573,262
Ventura
11,194,185
Yolo
1,968,762
Yuba
390,218
Value for California (Thousands of USD): 481,800,461
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census, 2012. Economic Census of the Island Areas, Puerto Rico, 2012. Both are updated every 5 years.
Definitions:
The retail trade sector comprises establishments engaged in retailing merchandise, generally without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise. The retailing process is the final step in the distribution of merchandise; retailers are, therefore, organized to sell merchandise in small quantities to the general public. The 2007 Economic Census classifies businesses according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 2012.
Sales include merchandise sold for cash or credit at retail and wholesale by establishments primarily engaged in retail trade; amounts received from customers for layaway purchases; receipts from rental of vehicles, equipment, instruments, tools, etc.; receipts for delivery, installation, maintenance, repair, alteration, storage, and other services; the total value of service contracts; and gasoline, liquor, tobacco, and other excise taxes which are paid by the manufacturer or wholesaler and passed on to the retailer.
Sales are net after deductions for refunds and allowances for merchandise returned by customers. Trade-in allowances are not deducted from sales. Sales do not include carrying or other credit charges; sales (or other) taxes collected from customers and forwarded to taxing authorities; gross sales and receipts of departments or concessions operated by other companies; and commissions or receipts from the sale of government lottery tickets.
Sales do not include retail sales made by manufacturers, wholesalers, service establishments, or other businesses whose primary activity is other than retail trade. They do include receipts other than from the sale of merchandise at retail, such as service receipts, sales to industrial users, and sales to other retailers by establishments primarily engaged in retail trade.
