E-commerce share of total retail sales (seasonally adjusted)
RecordSTO-2TR4YY4D6C-DAH9KMXB7E-FVHCHZ
United States · Q1 2021
E-commerce share of total retail sales in the United States (seasonally adjusted) was 14.9% in Q1 2021 (Census Bureau).
- Publisher
- Census Bureau
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Census Bureau Table 3 (Adjusted) delimited layout: Col 1 = Quarter, Col 2 = Total Sales ($M), Col 3 = E-Commerce Sales ($M), Col 4 = E-Commerce Share (%). Row: 1st quarter 2021
- Retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
1st quarter 2021/1530016/227949/14.9/5.9/5.0/16.2/45.3
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APA
U.S. Census Bureau. (2026). Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales: Adjusted Sales Time Series (Table 3). Retrieved September 30, 2026, from https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/delimited/tsadprectbl3.dat. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2TR4YY4D6CDAH9KMXB7EFVHCHZ
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- U.S. Census Bureau. "Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales: Adjusted Sales Time Series (Table 3)." 2026, https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/delimited/tsadprectbl3.dat. Accessed 30 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2TR4YY4D6CDAH9KMXB7EFVHCHZ.
- Chicago
- U.S. Census Bureau. "Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales: Adjusted Sales Time Series (Table 3)." 2026. https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/delimited/tsadprectbl3.dat. Accessed September 30, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2TR4YY4D6CDAH9KMXB7EFVHCHZ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{censusbureau2026commercefvhchz, author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}}, title = {Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales: Adjusted Sales Time Series (Table 3)}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2TR4YY4D6CDAH9KMXB7EFVHCHZ}, note = {Original source: https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/delimited/tsadprectbl3.dat. Accessed September 30, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- U.S. Census Bureau · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales: Adjusted Sales Time Series (Table 3)
- Type
- Dataset
- Published
- 18 August 2026
- Locator
- Census Bureau Table 3 (Adjusted) delimited layout: Col 1 = Quarter, Col 2 = Total Sales ($M), Col 3 = E-Commerce Sales ($M), Col 4 = E-Commerce Share (%). Row: 1st quarter 2021
- Retrieved
- 30 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Public domain
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- gemini:evidence-check-v1:2026-09-30
- Checked on
- 30 September 2026
- Last revision
- 29 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_2TR4YY4D6CDAH9KMXB7EFVHCHZ