Home textile industry statistics are best read through several connected measures: household spending, housing context, and prices for linens, coverings, furniture, and bedding. The available evidence is U.S.-focused and primarily covers 2020–2023, with consumer-expenditure averages and December 2023 CPI measures rather than total industry sales.
Key Home Textile Industry Statistics
The most useful headline figures are:
- In 2023, U.S. consumer units spent $2,508 on household furnishings and equipment.
- In 2023, household furnishings and equipment represented 3.2% of average U.S. consumer-unit expenditures.
- In 2023, U.S. consumer units spent $1,985 on household operations.
- In 2023, average total expenditure was $77,280 per U.S. consumer unit.
- From 2020 to 2021, average household-furnishings-and-equipment spending rose from $2,346 to $2,701 per U.S. consumer unit.
- From 2021 to 2022, average household-furnishings-and-equipment spending fell 3.5% in the United States.
- From 2022 to 2023, average household-furnishings-and-equipment spending fell 3.8% in the United States.
- Across 2020–2023, the category’s share of total spending moved from 3.8% to 4.0%, 3.6%, and 3.2% among U.S. consumer units.
- In 2023, the lowest-income quintile averaged $33,776 in total annual expenditures, compared with $150,093 for the highest quintile.
- In 2023, homeownership was 44% in the lowest income quintile and 87% in the highest in the United States.
- In 2023, 87.579 million U.S. consumer units were homeowners and 46.977 million were renters.
- In 2023, homeowners averaged $88,055 in total annual expenditures, compared with $57,186 for renters.
- In December 2023, window and floor coverings and other linens had a 0.291% CPI-U relative importance in the U.S. city average basket.
- Over the year ending December 2023, window and floor coverings and other linens rose 2.6% in price in the U.S. city average CPI-U.
- Over the year ending December 2023, other-linen prices rose 3.2% in the U.S. city average CPI-U.
- In December 2023, furniture and bedding had a 1.113% CPI-U relative importance in the U.S. city average basket.
- Over the year ending December 2023, furniture-and-bedding prices fell 1.2% in the U.S. city average CPI-U.
Contents
- Household furnishings spending and recent scale
- Home textile spending trends from 2020 to 2023
- Spending by income group
- Spending by housing tenure and household type
- Price trends for linens and coverings
- Furniture, bedding, and household-equipment data
Household Furnishings Spending and Home Textile Industry Scale
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports average annual expenditures by consumer unit, not total industry revenue. Its household furnishings and equipment category includes household textiles, furniture, floor coverings, appliances, and other equipment, so it is a useful broad indicator rather than a textile-only market size.
| 2023 U.S. measure | Average per consumer unit | Share or definition |
|---|---|---|
| Household furnishings and equipment | $2,508 | 3.2% of total expenditures |
| Household operations | $1,985 | Adjacent category |
| Housekeeping supplies | $818 | Not home textiles |
| Housing | $25,436 | 32.9% of total expenditures |
| All consumer-unit expenditures | $77,280 | Nominal annual average |
Source: Consumer expenditures in 2023. The furnishings category is broader than home textiles, while household operations, housekeeping supplies, and housing are contextual measures.
Housing provides the larger spending setting in which textile purchases occur. In 2023, housing averaged $25,436 per consumer unit and represented 32.9% of total expenditures, while furnishings and equipment represented 3.2%; neither figure is an industry-revenue total.
Home Textile Spending Trends from 2020 to 2023
The broad furnishings-and-equipment series increased during 2021, then declined in nominal spending in both 2022 and 2023. Because the figures are nominal and rounded in the BLS tables, they should not be treated as a textile-only volume index.
| Year or change | Furnishings and equipment | Share of total spending |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $2,346 | 3.8% |
| 2021 | $2,701 | 4.0% |
| 2021–2022 | -3.5% | 3.6% in 2022 |
| 2022–2023 | -3.8% | 3.2% in 2023 |
Source: Consumer expenditures in 2023. These are U.S. consumer-unit averages in a category broader than home textiles.
For context, average total spending increased 9.1% in 2021, 9.0% in 2022, and 5.9% in 2023. Average housing spending increased 5.6%, 7.4%, and 4.7% across those same years, while household-operations spending increased 11.8%, 12.9%, and 7.4%.
Housekeeping-supplies spending moved differently: it declined 4.1% in 2021 and 2.0% in 2022, then increased 3.9% in 2023. Housing’s share of total spending declined from 34.9% in 2020 to 32.9% in 2023, a movement that describes the broad housing category rather than textile demand.
Home Textile Spending by Income Group
The BLS income-quintile tables do not provide a standalone home-textile purchase rate, but they show the economic and household context surrounding demand. In 2023, average income before taxes ranged from $15,596 in the lowest quintile to $264,518 in the highest.
| 2023 income-quintile measure | Lowest quintile | Highest quintile |
|---|---|---|
| Total annual expenditures | $33,776 | $150,093 |
| Housing expenditure | $13,943 | $43,897 |
| Shelter spending | $8,754 | $27,226 |
| Income before taxes | $15,596 | $264,518 |
| Homeownership | 44% | 87% |
| People per consumer unit | 1.6 | 3.2 |
| Earners per consumer unit | 0.5 | 2.1 |
Source: Consumer expenditures in 2023. Housing and shelter are broader than home textiles, and homeownership is not a textile adoption rate.
Food spending offers another scale comparator, not a textile measure. Average food spending ranged from $5,278 in the lowest income quintile to $16,996 in the highest; food-at-home spending ranged from $3,707 to $9,198, and food-away-from-home spending ranged from $1,571 to $7,797.
Apparel and services, a textile-related but non-home category, averaged $1,656 for all consumer units and $3,109 for the highest income quintile. These figures should not be transferred to household textiles, but they help distinguish textile-adjacent spending from the BLS furnishings category.
Home Textile Spending by Housing Tenure and Household Type
Housing tenure separates two large U.S. consumer-unit groups. In 2023, BLS counted 87.579 million homeowner consumer units and 46.977 million renter consumer units; the counts are rounded to thousands and do not represent textile-purchase populations.
| 2023 measure | Homeowners | Renters |
|---|---|---|
| Total annual expenditures | $88,055 | $57,186 |
| Housing spending | $27,205 | $22,137 |
| Owned- or rented-dwelling spending | $13,316 | $15,044 |
| Utilities, fuels, and public services | $5,465 | $3,060 |
| Household operations | $2,420 | $1,173 |
| People per consumer unit | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| Vehicles per consumer unit | 2.3 | 1.2 |
Source: Consumer expenditures in 2023. Household operations is broader than home textiles, and dwelling costs and utilities are adjacent household measures.
Age also changes the household context. Consumer units headed by someone under 25 averaged $49,560 in annual expenditures in 2023, compared with $60,087 among those aged 65 and older; homeownership was 15% for the under-25 group and 78% for the 65-and-older group.
Consumer units aged 35–44 averaged 3.4 people, the highest average among the listed age groups. Consumer units aged 65 and older averaged 1.7 people, which is a household-size descriptor rather than a measure of textile consumption.
Home Textile Industry Price Trends for Linens and Coverings
The December 2023 CPI-U release provides price movement and expenditure weights for textile-relevant categories in the U.S. city average. A relative-importance value is an expenditure weight in the CPI basket, not market size, revenue, or unit demand.
| CPI-U category, December 2023 | Relative importance | 12 months ending December 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Window and floor coverings and other linens | 0.291% | +2.6% |
| Floor coverings | 0.082% | +2.1% |
| Window coverings | 0.075% | +0.1% |
| Other linens | 0.133% | +3.2% |
Source: Consumer Price Index News Release – 2023 M12 Results. The annual changes measure prices, not quantities or industry revenue.
The archived release also shows a December-to-December annual-change column for the prior comparison: window and floor coverings and other linens fell 3.1%, while other-linen prices fell 9.3%. Those entries are release-table comparisons and should not be interpreted as a multi-year market trend.
Furniture, Bedding, and Household-Equipment Statistics by Consumer Segment
Furniture and bedding are relevant to bedroom and home furnishing decisions but include non-textile products. The CPI-U weights below therefore provide adjacent segment data rather than a direct home-textile market estimate.
| CPI-U category, December 2023 | Relative importance | 12 months ending December 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture and bedding | 1.113% | -1.2% |
| Bedroom furniture | 0.367% | -1.7% |
| Living-room, kitchen, and dining-room furniture | 0.541% | -6.0% |
| Other furniture | 0.199% | -4.0% |
| Other household equipment and furnishings | 0.551% | -1.1% |
Source: Consumer Price Index News Release – 2023 M12 Results. Furniture-and-bedding and household-equipment categories include non-textile goods, and their price changes do not measure unit sales.
Taken together, the CPI evidence shows different movements across adjacent home categories in the U.S. city average during the year ending December 2023. The figures can describe price conditions and basket weights, but they do not establish global industry revenue, a forecast, or a standalone adoption rate.
The BLS notes that consumer-expenditure subgroup estimates can have high relative standard errors, and detailed cells may be suppressed when the relative standard error is at least 25%. The evidence therefore supports a U.S.-focused overview of spending context and price trends, with explicit limits on interpreting broad categories as home-textile totals.