{
  "name": "Washington, DC Retail: 2023 County Industry Reference",
  "description": "2023 CBP employer establishments, employment and annual payroll for District of Columbia, NAICS 44-45. No measured city profit margins or startup cost estimates.",
  "version": "2023 CBP / extraction 2026-10-09",
  "city": "Washington, DC",
  "state": "District of Columbia",
  "industry": "retail",
  "reviewStatus": "published source rows checked; county reference",
  "coverage": "District of Columbia. District of Columbia is a county-equivalent reference. It excludes neighboring Maryland and Virginia jurisdictions. Broad Retail Trade sector, including chains and store categories beyond independent shops; it is not a survey of one retail format. Covers establishments with paid employees; nonemployer/sole-operator businesses without payroll are excluded. Chains are not filtered out. Published employment and payroll use disclosure protection; retain source flags. CBP provides no revenue, profit margins, commercial rents, startup budgets or prevailing hourly wages.",
  "dataCompiledAt": "2026-10-09",
  "sourcesVerifiedAt": "2026-10-09",
  "temporalCoverage": "2023",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "sourcePage": "https://hustlefin.com/benchmarks/retail/city/washington-dc/",
  "metrics": [
    {
      "key": "11001_establishments",
      "label": "District of Columbia employer establishments",
      "value": 1653,
      "unit": "establishments",
      "sourceField": "est",
      "status": "published",
      "year": 2023,
      "geography": "District of Columbia (FIPS 11001)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 11001 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    },
    {
      "key": "11001_employment",
      "label": "District of Columbia employment (week of March 12)",
      "value": 21170,
      "unit": "employees",
      "sourceField": "emp",
      "status": "published",
      "year": 2023,
      "geography": "District of Columbia (FIPS 11001)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 11001 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    },
    {
      "key": "11001_annual_payroll",
      "label": "District of Columbia annual payroll",
      "value": 831314,
      "unit": "USD thousands",
      "sourceField": "ap",
      "status": "published",
      "year": 2023,
      "geography": "District of Columbia (FIPS 11001)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 11001 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    }
  ],
  "reference": {
    "industry": "retail",
    "industryLabel": "Retail",
    "slug": "washington-dc",
    "city": "Washington, DC",
    "state": "District of Columbia",
    "naics": "44-45",
    "naicsLabel": "Retail Trade",
    "sourceNaics": "44----",
    "geography": "District of Columbia",
    "geographyNote": "District of Columbia is a county-equivalent reference. It excludes neighboring Maryland and Virginia jurisdictions.",
    "counties": [
      {
        "fips": "11001",
        "name": "District of Columbia",
        "establishments": 1653,
        "employment": 21170,
        "annualPayrollThousands": 831314,
        "employmentFlag": "G",
        "payrollFlag": "G"
      }
    ],
    "establishments": 1653,
    "year": 2023,
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2023/econ/cbp/2023-cbp.html",
    "sourceFile": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-09",
    "sourceSha256": "e9539e96ceb91608ad44ab1cfc651d7c1ff9b88bddfe7a8ff64134ccde6e9603",
    "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 11001 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12.",
    "limitations": "Broad Retail Trade sector, including chains and store categories beyond independent shops; it is not a survey of one retail format. Covers establishments with paid employees; nonemployer/sole-operator businesses without payroll are excluded. Chains are not filtered out. Published employment and payroll use disclosure protection; retain source flags. CBP provides no revenue, profit margins, commercial rents, startup budgets or prevailing hourly wages.",
    "wage": null
  },
  "unavailableMetrics": [
    "measured city gross/net margin",
    "typical city revenue",
    "market rent",
    "startup cost distribution",
    "unverified local wage/tax/fee figures"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "U.S. Census Bureau — 2023 CBP release",
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2023/econ/cbp/2023-cbp.html",
      "note": "Published June 26, 2025. This is 2023 data, not 2026 observations."
    },
    {
      "label": "2023 county source file (cbp23co.zip)",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "note": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 11001 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    },
    {
      "label": "CBP county record layout",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/technical-documentation/records-layouts/2020_record_layouts/county-layout-2020.txt",
      "note": "Field definitions and disclosure flags."
    },
    {
      "label": "CBP methodology",
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/technical-documentation/methodology.html",
      "note": "Employer coverage and disclosure protection."
    }
  ]
}