Texas Led the Country in Wholesale Trade Volume Between '07 and '12

Washington, DC, October 2, 2015—Texas supplanted California between 2007 and 2012 as the state with the largest volume of sales for the wholesale trade sector, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent economic census.

California was the top state in 2007, with $925.3 billion in sales, but its increase was only 4.7% to $969.2 billion in 2012.

Texas was second in 2007, at $663.7 billion, but its sales rose 70.1% to $1.1 trillion in 2012.

These data were published as the Census Bureau concluded the release of its 2012 Economic Census Geographic Area Series reports for the wholesale trade sector of the economy.