Tennessee · NAICS 459 · Annual, 2025
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 459 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers (NAICS 459) employed about 32,400 people in Tennessee across roughly 3,905 establishments, with average annual pay of $35,890.
Employment in Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in Tennessee grew 24.1% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 49.0% below the all-industries average in Tennessee. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 32,400. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 32,400Employment, 2025
- 3,905Establishments
- $35,890Avg. annual pay
- 1.0%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 1.04Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 30,000; 2005 29,800; 2006 28,900; 2007 28,700; 2008 27,500; 2009 25,900; 2010 25,400; 2011 25,400; 2012 26,300; 2013 26,900; 2014 28,000; 2015 29,400; 2016 29,900; 2017 29,700; 2018 29,700; 2019 29,300; 2020 26,100; 2021 27,900; 2022 31,000; 2023 31,700; 2024 32,300; 2025 32,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32,431 | 3,905 | $35,895 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 32,297 | 4,157 | $37,288 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 31,735 | 3,991 | $33,868 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 30,953 | 3,713 | $32,820 | 11.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 27,885 | 3,113 | $30,928 | 6.7% | pub. |
| 2020 | 26,144 | 2,991 | $28,475 | 10.7% | pub. |
| 2019 | 29,281 | 3,006 | $25,360 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 29,681 | 3,002 | $24,560 | 0.1% | est. · 0.83 |
| 2017 | 29,722 | 2,996 | $23,416 | 0.6% | est. · 0.37 |
| 2016 | 29,910 | 3,024 | $22,563 | 1.7% | est. · 0.41 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers in Tennessee. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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