U.S. Kitchen & Bath Industry Statistics 2026

74 primary-source statistics on remodeling, fixtures, housing, water use, manufacturing, and trade.
Last fact-check: September 13, 2026.

The U.S. kitchen and bath market is not one dataset. It sits at the intersection of remodeling, new housing, water-efficiency rules, fixture manufacturing, and international trade. This reference brings those signals together without treating unlike measures as if they were interchangeable.

Every numbered claim comes from a government agency, an official institution, or the organization that ran the original survey. The year in the title is the review year; each row retains its own statistical period. Forecasts are labeled as forecasts, survey results retain their sample boundaries, and dollar estimates are not added across sources.

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What are the key U.S. kitchen and bath statistics?

1. NKBA and John Burns Research and Consulting forecast a roughly $228 billion U.S. residential kitchen and bath market in 2026, with a 0.4% spending decline.
2. The Q2 2026 Kitchen and Bath Market Index was 52.7, while current activity was 47.7 and near-term activity was 65.2.
3. Harvard JCHS estimated 2023 homeowner spending of $40.674 billion on kitchen remodeling and $33.723 billion on bathroom remodeling.
4. July 2026 U.S. housing permits ran at 1.443 million units and starts at 1.239 million units, both seasonally adjusted annual rates.
5. Total residential construction put in place ran at an annualized $871.205 billion in July 2026.
6. In 2025, 32% of completed single-family houses had three or more bathrooms; 42% of completed multifamily units had two or more.
7. In the 2026 Houzz kitchen study, 85% of surveyed renovators upgraded the sink and 82% upgraded the faucet.
8. In the 2025 Houzz bathroom study, 87% upgraded faucets, 75% upgraded the shower, and 73% upgraded the sink.
9. EPA says toilets account for nearly 30% and showers nearly 17% of residential indoor water use.
10. The 2024 American Community Survey estimated 2.304 million U.S. housing units lacked complete plumbing and 3.061 million lacked complete kitchen facilities.
11. Census County Business Patterns counted 575 establishments and 12,082 employees in NAICS 327110 pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixture manufacturing in 2023.
12. UN Comtrade's UNSD-aggregated 2025 data put U.S. imports of HS 6910 ceramic sanitary fixtures at $1.548 billion, a broad customs category that should not be confused with a single product market.

How large is the U.S. kitchen and bath market?

The industry outlook and sentiment readings below are useful planning signals, but they are not audited sales totals. The outlook is a modeled forecast; the KBMI is an original survey of 500 NKBA community members across four industry segments.

For manufacturers, distributors, and project buyers, the practical message is mixed rather than uniformly weak: the public forecast points to a broadly flat market, while respondents were more positive about near-term activity than current activity. Neither measure predicts demand for a specific project, region, or product.

How much homeowner remodeling demand is visible?

Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies uses American Housing Survey data to estimate improvement spending at owner-occupied properties. Its project counts, average spending, and total spending describe different dimensions of the same market and should not be added to new-construction data.

These figures support the existence of a large replacement and remodeling channel, but they do not specify units purchased, brands selected, or trade-buyer margins.

Downloadable 2023 kitchen-and-bath comparison charts

Each chart keeps the Harvard JCHS population, period, units and claim IDs visible.

How much new housing and residential construction is in the pipeline?

The Census Bureau's New Residential Construction release reports unit activity, while the Value of Construction Put in Place survey reports nominal dollars. July figures are preliminary seasonally adjusted annual rates, not actual units or dollars completed during one month.

Permits, starts, and completions are separate stages of the construction pipeline. They should not be summed. Project buyers can use the series to frame timing and channel exposure, then replace the national indicators with local permit schedules, unit mix, and project specifications.

How many bathrooms are being built into new homes?

Census Characteristics of New Housing tables provide a direct link between the housing pipeline and fixture demand. Counts are estimates in thousands, and published percentages use unrounded values.

Bathroom count is closer to a bill-of-materials driver than general housing value, but it is still not a fixture order forecast. A full takeoff also needs unit plans, shared amenity spaces, replacement allowances, accessibility requirements, and approved alternates.

For a project-specific quantity worksheet, use SANIKB's project fixture takeoff calculator. National statistics do not replace a project quantity schedule or an approved takeoff.

Which kitchen and bathroom fixtures are homeowners upgrading?

Houzz publishes original opt-in surveys of registered U.S. users who recently completed, were working on, or planned a renovation. The kitchen report includes 1,780 respondents; the bathroom PDF reports 1,738. These results describe the Houzz user population, not all U.S. homeowners.

The survey findings are best used for assortment questions and discovery, not for estimating total national unit sales. A project's submittal schedule, code requirements, price tier, finish matrix, and maintenance plan remain the governing inputs.

How much water do toilets, faucets, and showers use?

EPA WaterSense combines specification limits with modeled household and national savings scenarios. A specification limit is a product requirement; a savings estimate depends on the inefficient fixture being replaced and actual user behavior.

For specifications, verify the applicable model, certification listing, local plumbing code, and project performance requirements. The private-lavatory faucet figures do not apply to kitchen faucets, public lavatories, or metering faucets.

How complete are U.S. plumbing and kitchen facilities?

The American Community Survey uses defined facility questions for all housing units. “Complete” is a Census survey classification; it does not say that a kitchen or bathroom is modern, undamaged, accessible, or due for renovation.

These estimates provide infrastructure context, not a serviceable-market calculation. The complete and lacking categories partition the same total and must not be added to it as incremental demand.

How large is U.S. fixture manufacturing?

County Business Patterns counts paid-employee establishments and employment under specific NAICS codes. An establishment is a location, not necessarily a company or a factory, and payroll is not sales.

The two NAICS groups are different manufacturing classifications and should not be used as a direct proxy for total kitchen and bath market size. The published data also use noise infusion to protect confidentiality.

How much ceramic sanitary ware does the United States trade?

UN Comtrade's HS 6910 classification covers ceramic sinks, washbasins and pedestals, baths, bidets, water-closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals, and similar sanitary fixtures. It is broader than any single SANIKB product line.

The API marks these world-partner records isReported=false and isAggregate=true, meaning they are UNSD aggregates rather than reporter-submitted records. The import value is CIF and the export value is FOB. Product mix, unit values, logistics, duties, and reporting practices make a simple value-per-item calculation misleading, so none is presented here.

What does household water heating add to the picture?

Water-heating fuel and equipment influence operating-cost discussions, but they do not measure fixture demand directly. EIA's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey sampled about 18,500 households and weighted the results to 123.53 million main occupied homes.

Tankless equipment can use different fuels, so the tankless count overlaps the fuel categories. These estimates exclude vacant, seasonal, second, military, and group-quarter housing.

How large is domestic household water use?

USGS compiles public-supply deliveries and self-supplied withdrawals. Domestic use includes both indoor and outdoor household uses, so these figures should not be presented as kitchen-and-bath-only consumption.

The USGS series is older than the housing and market indicators, but it remains useful when its 2015 reference period is shown prominently.

What should project buyers take from the data?

• Forecast from project documents first. National statistics frame demand; drawings, unit mix, schedules, specifications, approved alternates, and attic-stock requirements determine a purchase order.
• Separate pipeline stages. Permits, starts, completions, and construction spending describe different events and must not be summed.
• Separate product rules from savings models. A WaterSense flow or flush limit is a specification. A national savings scenario is not a guaranteed project result.
• Keep classification boundaries visible. NAICS 327110, NAICS 332913, and HS 6910 cover different populations and cannot be treated as the same market.
• Qualify supply at model level. Confirm drawings, samples, test reports, applicable certifications, finish tolerances, packaging, lead times, and change-control procedures before approval.

SANIKB manufactures ceramic basins, ceramic toilets, and fireclay products. For faucets, shower systems and enclosures, stainless steel sinks, quartz and stone products, and other categories, SANIKB supports coordinated sourcing rather than claiming in-house production. Nothing in the national manufacturing or trade data changes that boundary.

This page is a statistics reference. For product dimensions, use the standard kitchen sink sizes reference. For design-direction research, use 2026 Kitchen and Bath Trends Buyers Care About. Keeping those intents separate reduces overlap between sizing, trends, and industry-statistics pages.

How were these statistics selected?

• Primary-source rule: sources are U.S. government agencies, an official international statistical body, an official industry institution publishing its own joint research, or the organization that conducted the original survey.
• Independent-stat rule: the table does not pad the count by repeating one metric across multiple years. Closely related rows remain only when they measure different quantities, populations, pipeline stages, fixture categories, or specification limits.
• No hidden arithmetic: published values are reported as released. We do not infer a market size by multiplying survey percentages by national housing totals or by adding unlike datasets.
• Period labeling: the reference year or month appears with each claim. The 2026 page title indicates the current editorial review, not that every underlying observation occurred in 2026.
• Traceability: the downloadable source ledger records the value, unit, geography, reference period, sample or population, publisher, original URL, publication date, page locator, and limitation for every stat ID.

What are the main source entries?

• NKBA/JBREC 2026 Kitchen and Bath Industry Outlook, midyear update
• NKBA/JBREC Q2 2026 Kitchen and Bath Market Index
• Harvard JCHS, Improving America's Housing 2025
• Census/HUD New Residential Construction
• Census Value of Construction Put in Place
• Census Characteristics of New Housing
• 2026 U.S. Houzz Kitchen Trends Study
• 2025 U.S. Houzz Bathroom Trends Study
• EPA WaterSense residential toilets
• EPA WaterSense bathroom faucets
• EPA WaterSense showerheads
• EPA WaterSense accomplishments
• Census ACS 2024 Table B25047: Plumbing Facilities
• Census ACS 2024 Table B25051: Kitchen Facilities
• Census 2023 County Business Patterns
• UN Statistics HS 6910 classification
• EIA 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, Table HC8.4
• USGS Domestic Water Use

Cite this page

Original visualization: The downloadable charts on this page were designed and assembled by SANIKB from the cited primary-source figures. The underlying statistics remain attributed to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

• Primary source for these charts: Harvard JCHS, Improving America's Housing 2025, Table A-1.
• Last updated and fact-checked: September 13, 2026.
• Canonical page: https://sanikb.com/blogs/resource/kitchen-bath-industry-statistics

Suggested citation: SANIKB. “U.S. Kitchen & Bath Industry Statistics 2026.” Last updated September 13, 2026. https://sanikb.com/blogs/resource/kitchen-bath-industry-statistics

You may reuse the PNG charts with their printed source, population, period and claim-ID notes intact. No backlink is required.

How often will this page be updated?

The same evergreen URL should be reviewed quarterly for newly released source tables and refreshed comprehensively at least once a year. Each update should preserve the stat IDs where the metric and definition remain stable, replace rather than stack old-year versions of the same metric, record the new fact-check date, and retain prior limitations when they still apply.

Editorial note: This is an evidence reference, not a forecast for any individual company, product, or construction project. Verify current codes, certifications, duties, and project requirements before specifying or purchasing.