Fun and factual Statistics about December Holidays, US Census Bureau

Year 2021
1. There were $17.1 billion in estimated retail sales for the nation’s department stores in December 2021. That’s an increase of 17.8% from $14.5 billion in December 2020.

2. There were $113.9 billion in estimated retail sales by electronic shopping and mail-order houses in December 2021. That was the highest estimated total for any month last year.

3. There were nearly 4.7 million U.S. workers aged 16 and over employed full-time, year-round as either retail salespersons, cashiers, or first-line supervisors of retail sales workers in 2021.

4. In the U.S. in 2020, there were approximately:
🧁 3,000 baked goods stores
🍫 3,000 candy and nut stores
🏬 4,000 department stores
🧸 8,000 hobby, toy, and game stores
💎 20,000 jewelry stores

Places With Holiday Names
Garland, Texas (Pop. − 246,018)
Sugar Land, Texas (Pop. − 111,026)
Bethlehem Town, New York (Pop. − 35,034)
Snowflake, Arizona (Pop. − 6,104)
Santa Claus, Indiana (Pop. − 2,586)
Christmas, Florida (Pop. − 2,439)
North Pole, Alaska (Pop. − 2,243)
Dasher, Georgia (Pop. − 890)
Rudolph Village, Wisconsin (Pop. − 433)
Wintergreen, Virginia (Pop. − 346)

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Year 2022
Black Friday: Consumers spent a record $9.12 billion while online shopping Friday.

That’s an increase of 2.3% over a year ago – surpassing the previous online Black Friday sales high mark of $9.03 billion in 2020.

Cyber Monday: online sales reached $11.3 billion, the most ever for that day and 5.8% higher than Cyber Monday 2021 and 25% more than this year’s Black Friday online sales. This makes Cyber Monday the biggest online sales day in 2022.

== these figures are according to Adobe Analytics (which tracks more than 85% of the top 100 U.S. online retailers).