Is electrical equipment and appliances manufacturing growing or shrinking?

In the latest annual data (2025), electrical equipment and appliances value added is up 2.9% year over year in dollar terms. The full quarterly series since 2005 is charted above and updates with each BEA release.

Which states produce the most electrical equipment and appliances?

Ohio leads with $6.8B of electrical equipment and appliances GDP in 2024, followed by California ($6.7B) and Texas ($5.3B), per BEA state GDP data.

Is electrical equipment and appliances a durable or nondurable goods industry?

BEA classes electrical equipment and appliances manufacturing as durable goods. Durable goods (metals, machinery, electronics, vehicles) are products with a service life of three years or more.

Manufacturing Economy Monitor

Electrical Equipment and Appliances Manufacturing

Electrical Equipment and Appliances manufacturing produced $82.5B of value added in 2025. That is 2.8% of all U.S. manufacturing output and 0.3% of GDP, making it the 11th-largest of the 19 manufacturing subsectors the Bureau of Economic Analysis tracks. Output grew 2.9% year over year. It is classed as durable goods manufacturing; the largest producing state is Ohio ($6.8B in 2024).

Output and growth

Value added: $82.5B in 2025, 2.8% of all U.S. manufacturing and 0.3% of GDP.
Year-over-year change: +2.9% in dollar terms.
Classification: durable goods manufacturing (BEA subsector 335).

Top producing states

Ohio: $6.8B (2024)
California: $6.7B (2024)
Texas: $5.3B (2024)

Frequently asked questions

How big is electrical equipment and appliances manufacturing in the U.S.? Electrical Equipment and Appliances manufacturing produced $82.5B of value added in 2025, or 2.8% of all U.S. manufacturing output and 0.3% of total GDP, per BEA GDP-by-industry data. It ranks 11 of 19 manufacturing subsectors by size.
Is electrical equipment and appliances manufacturing growing or shrinking? In the latest annual data (2025), electrical equipment and appliances value added is up 2.9% year over year in dollar terms. The full quarterly series since 2005 is charted above and updates with each BEA release.
Which states produce the most electrical equipment and appliances? Ohio leads with $6.8B of electrical equipment and appliances GDP in 2024, followed by California ($6.7B) and Texas ($5.3B), per BEA state GDP data.
Is electrical equipment and appliances a durable or nondurable goods industry? BEA classes electrical equipment and appliances manufacturing as durable goods. Durable goods (metals, machinery, electronics, vehicles) are products with a service life of three years or more.

About this data

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (public domain). National quarterly values are seasonally adjusted annual rates. Corporate-profit industry detail reflects inventory valuation adjustment without capital consumption adjustment, per NIPA table 6.16D conventions.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.