Source: County Business Patterns, U.S. Census Bureau.

The number of retail florist establishments continued to contract in 2006 according to just-released data from the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns. The number of retail florist establishments declined 4.3 percent in 2006 to 20,227, down from 21,135 in 2005. As shown in the figure, the survey has documented a decline in the number of florists each year since 1996. From 2006 to 1996, the number of florists fell 24.3 percent. 

County Business Patterns is an annual series that provides economic data in the years in-between the five-year national economic censuses. The series excludes data on self-employed individuals and thus may differ from other counts provided by the government.

-- Ira Silvergleit
isilvergleit@safnow.org

  

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