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Shopify Stores in the United States

Updated Dec 13 2024

There are 972,239 live Shopify stores in the United States.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Shopify stores in the United States.

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Shopify Growth in the United States

Shopify's worldwide quarter-over-quarter growth has been quite impressive over the last few years, and that trend is visible within most countries.

  • Shopify stores in the United States increased 0.1% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q3.
  • Shopify stores in the United States decreased -4% year-over-year in 2024 Q3.

Here is Shopify's quarter-over-quarter growth in the United States.

Quarter
Active Stores
2019 Q1
424,464
2019 Q2
471,684
2019 Q3
505,324
2019 Q4
554,614
2020 Q1
574,007
2020 Q2
667,287
2020 Q3
733,478
2020 Q4
743,733
2021 Q1
768,050
2021 Q2
817,589
2021 Q3
827,101
2021 Q4
838,117
2022 Q1
865,678
2022 Q2
859,329
2022 Q3
907,885
2022 Q4
959,226
2023 Q1
992,107
2023 Q2
1,000,930
2023 Q3
1,011,069
2023 Q4
1,018,095
2024 Q1
1,040,214
2024 Q2
980,947
2024 Q3
971,031
2024 Q4 (to date)
972,239
Active Stores by Quarter

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a Shopify store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Categories For Shopify Stores In the United States

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for Shopify stores in the United States.

  • 29.7% of Shopify stores in the United States sell Apparel products.
  • 11.1% of Shopify stores in the United States sell Home & Garden products.
  • 10.6% of Shopify stores in the United States sell Beauty & Fitness products.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In the United States

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

  • Instagram is used by 47.0% of Shopify stores in the United States.
  • Facebook is used by 32.7% of Shopify stores in the United States.
  • YouTube is used by 11.7% of Shopify stores in the United States.
Type
Stores
Instagram
457,029
Facebook
318,105
YouTube
114,217
Tiktok
103,627
Twitter
100,489
Pinterest
91,907
LinkedIn
50,018
Facebook Group
14,035

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In the United States

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

  • 53% of Shopify stores in the United States have an email on their website
  • 28% of Shopify stores in the United States provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
516,831
Phone
267,719

Shopify Plus Stores In the United States

There are 17,753 Shopify Plus stores in the United States. For more information on Shopify Plus, read our Shopify Plus report.

States With The Most Shopify Stores In the United States

It's relatively easy to identify the country in which an ecommerce store operates. However, very few ecommerce stores provide a location to the state-level or city-level and even fewer provide a street address.

Here is the state distribution of Shopify stores in the United States. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 160,481 Shopify stores in the United States are based in California.
  • 93,056 Shopify stores in the United States are based in Florida.
  • 82,124 Shopify stores in the United States are based in Texas.
  • 72,159 Shopify stores in the United States are based in New York.
State
Stores
160,481
93,056
82,124
72,159
40,559
30,098
27,949
24,628
21,315
20,536
20,521
19,780
19,407
19,328

Cities With The Most Shopify Stores in the United States

Here is the city distribution of Shopify stores in the United States. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 49,039 Shopify stores in the United States are based in Unknown.
  • 29,845 Shopify stores in the United States are based in Los Angeles.
  • 19,270 Shopify stores in the United States are based in New York.
City
Stores
49,039
29,845
19,270
12,602
11,072
8,600
8,370
8,058
7,748
7,129
6,972
6,507
5,535
4,907

Top Shopify Apps in the United States

Here are the top 10 apps, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopify stores in the United States.

With a paid account on Store Leads, you'll be able to see which stores have installed specific apps. You can also see when specific apps were installed (or uninstalled) by each store.

Number of Employees for Shopify stores in the United States

  • 94.9% of Shopify stores in the United States have Unknown employees.
  • 2.9% of Shopify stores in the United States have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 1.0% of Shopify stores in the United States have 10 - 24 employees.

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in the United States by the number of employees.

Employees
Stores
Unknown
922,758
1 - 9
28,312
10 - 24
9,393
25 - 49
4,555
50 - 99
2,918
100 - 249
2,352
250 - 999
1,368
1000 - 4999
434
5000+
149

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In the United States

  • 18.3% of Shopify stores in the United States ship by USPS.
  • 10.2% of Shopify stores in the United States ship by UPS.
  • 5.9% of Shopify stores in the United States ship by Fedex.

Here are the top shipping carriers for Shopify stores in the United States.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
USPS
177,979
UPS
99,409
Fedex
57,152
DHL
3,936
Canada Post
3,020
Royal Mail
1,433
Australia Post
1,150
China Post
917
Correos
530
Purolator
218

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In the United States

.com is the most common top-level domain, by far, for world-wide Shopify stores. Some countries have been faster than others to adopt alternate (such as country-specific) top-level domains.

  • 86.9% of Shopify stores in the United States have a .com domain.
  • 2.8% of Shopify stores in the United States have a .shop domain.
  • 2.2% of Shopify stores in the United States have a .store domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for Shopify stores in the United States.

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
844,398
.shop
27,211
.store
21,658
.co
18,392
.net
15,048
.org
11,440
.us
10,288
.online
1,837
.io
1,156
.art
968

Top Shopify Stores In the United States

Here are the top stores in the United States ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Khy
68
2023/09/29
Stanley 1913
142
2020/09/04
Katy Perry Collections
145
2019/07/05
Fashion Nova
154
2017/01/27
Sanrio
180
2016/12/30

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