Looking for the perfect gift for your hard-to-please family member or friend who returns every gift you give them?
Out of ideas?
Your local bookstore may be just the place to find gifts for those who seem to have everything and like nothing. How about a coffee table book with gorgeous photos of classic cars, national parks, or skyscrapers? Or a great novel that even the pickiest of people would enjoy curling up with on a sofa or beach lounge chair?
Despite all the advances in digital technology, bookstores still fill our need for knowledge and the written word and harken back to simpler times when we were not so tethered to our electronic devices.
Despite all the advances in digital technology, bookstores still fill our need for knowledge and the written word and harken back to simpler times when we were not so tethered to our electronic devices.
According to data from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, while the number of U.S. Book stores (as listed in the North American Industry Classification System) dropped from 12,151 in 1998 to 6,045 in 2019, there were still more bookstores than some other types of retail businesses that are ubiquitous in our communities, including Home Centers (5,952 establishments) and Department Stores (3,856).
These employer (businesses with paid employees) bookstores had 61,068 workers and reported nearly $1.1 billion in annual payroll in 2019, averaging only $17,660 a year per employee. (FYI: This employment statistic was for the week of March 12 and therefore does not reflect any seasonal change in employment in this industry.)
Bookstores in Hawaii reported the highest average annual payroll per employee — $26,007.
Given it’s our most populated state, it’s no surprise there were more (605) bookstores in California and they employed the most (7,763) workers in this industry of any other state in 2019.
On average, there was one bookstore per 54,299 people in the United States in 2019. Nevada had the nation’s fewest number of bookstores per capita — one for every 110,006 state residents — perhaps making it an underserved market that could potentially support new bookstores.
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