With varied patterns across the country, the home remodeling industry appears to be greatly buffeted by prospects in the nation’s three largest states.
According to a newly released study put together by the National Association of Home Builders, California, Texas, and Florida accounted for upwards of 20% of the entire national remodeling market as of the spring of this year.
California led the way with some $22.2 billion in remodeling spending; followed by Texas at $20.2 billion; and Florida, coming in at $15.4 billion.
The figures were compiled by the NAHB’s State Projections of Remodeling, which despite the buoyant numbers coming out of the nation’s three largest states, also revealed some dormancy.
New York and North Carolina filled out the remaining top five remodeling states, seeing revenue respectively more than $11.2 billion and $8.4 billion.
The latest figures, said Robert Dietz, NAHB chief economist, “showed cyclical weakness in remodeling spending,” with the number of other states with negative growth rates increasing.
Despite that trendline, continued Dietz, “inflation-adjusted remodeling spending increased more than 10%” in the period between 2023 and the end of the year 2025.
And that increase is bolstered, added Dietz, “by an aging housing stock and record-high home equity gains for existing homeowners.”
Earlier this year, a separate NAHB survey described the industry as evidencing a “post-pandemic resiliency” with individual home remodeling businesses increasing from 69,000 in 2000 to more than 128,000 as of 2025.
August 14, 2026
By Garry Boulard
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