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Advance Report on Durable Goods · New orders, seasonally adjusted

How many orders do US factories get for each type of durable goods?

The month ended : of the 14 lines, the change over a year was largest for Primary metals, up 20.4%, and smallest for Defense capital goods, up 4.5%.

New orders for durable goods, all durable goods, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

New orders for durable goods, all durable goods, each month, one row for each measure
  • Durable goods345.4165.2 to 347.8
  • Without transportation equipment225.6134.7 to 225.6
  • Without defense321.1150.3 to 322.5

New orders for durable goods, capital goods, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

New orders for durable goods, capital goods, each month, one row for each measure
  • Capital goods128.665.5 to 150.0
  • Core capital goods88.056.5 to 88.0
  • Defense capital goods20.87.1 to 23.4

New orders for durable goods, industries, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

New orders for durable goods, industries, each month, one row for each measure
  • Primary metals33.013.5 to 33.0
  • Fabricated metal products45.225.5 to 45.6
  • Machinery46.027.7 to 46.0
  • Computers and electronic products31.320.9 to 31.3
  • Electrical equipment and appliances18.99.9 to 18.9
  • Transportation equipment119.830.4 to 145.7
  • Motor vehicles and parts73.419.4 to 73.8
  • Nondefense aircraft and parts25.3-6.1 to 60.0

Each row is one line of the page over the last ten years, one month to a point, on a scale shared by the rows of the tab, with its newest value and its range printed beside it and a dashed line at zero. A gap is a month with no value. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

Observed .

Right now

Over a year to September 2026, of the 14 lines on this page the change was largest for Primary metals, up 20.4%, and smallest for Defense capital goods, up 4.5%.

Of these lines, 14 rose, 0 fell and 0 did not change over the year (ours, from the published values).

See every line with its value and rank

By lineOver a year, ours

New orders for durable goods, change over a year, by line

September 2025 to September 2026Percent, ours, from the published values

  • 1 Primary metals +20.4% now $33.0 billion
  • 2 Computers and electronic products +16.6% now $31.3 billion
  • 3 Nondefense aircraft and parts +16.2% now $25.3 billion
  • 4 Machinery +16.1% now $46.0 billion
  • 5 Core capital goods +13.5% now $88.0 billion
  • 6 Capital goods +13.0% now $128.6 billion
  • 7 Without transportation equipment +11.1% now $225.6 billion
  • 8 Without defense +10.4% now $321.1 billion
  • 9 Durable goods +9.9% now $345.4 billion
  • 10 Motor vehicles and parts +8.9% now $73.4 billion
  • 11 Fabricated metal products +8.3% now $45.2 billion
  • 12 Transportation equipment +7.9% now $119.8 billion
  • 13 Electrical equipment and appliances +4.8% now $18.9 billion
  • 14 Defense capital goods +4.5% now $20.8 billion
  • All durable goods
  • Capital goods
  • Industries

Each bar is the change in one line over a year, the largest first, with its rank at the left and its newest value under the figure. A line with its own page links it from its name. A change below zero runs to the left of the zero line. The colour says which section of the page a line is in.

Observed .

New orders for durable goods, change over a year in each month

Percent, ours, from the published values

Line
Durable goods+4.9+12.5+10.6+9.9+7.6+1.4+17.8−3.0+7.7+11.8+8.6+9.9
Without transportation equipment+3.5+4.4+5.5+5.6+6.5+7.9+9.5+10.8+11.6+11.4+11.3+11.1
Without defense+5.0+12.7+10.1+9.3+7.3−1.8+15.3−4.6+5.8+9.9+8.2+10.4
Capital goods+6.8+28.8+22.2+16.7+11.6−5.7+35.8−20.6+3.8+14.9+10.6+13.0
Core capital goods+6.1+5.8+6.3+4.0+6.2+9.9+10.9+10.9+13.4+13.3+14.1+13.5
Defense capital goods+1.1+9.3+27.5+25.9+29.4+91.8+67.1+16.6+35.7+43.3+32.3+4.5
Primary metals+5.0+4.0+9.4+9.2+10.5+10.6+13.5+17.5+18.5+19.3+21.0+20.4
Fabricated metal products+0.5+4.7+3.4+5.3+6.0+7.0+10.9+11.2+11.2+10.7+8.7+8.3
Machinery+9.5+8.1+9.8+6.6+10.1+10.9+12.3+15.1+16.0+16.2+14.9+16.1
Computers and electronic products+4.5+5.7+7.7+7.7+9.1+16.3+15.3+14.2+16.6+15.3+17.1+16.6
Electrical equipment and appliances+5.2+6.1+5.7+7.2+4.2+6.8+6.6+6.4+7.7+7.0+7.0+4.8
Transportation equipment+7.6+29.5+21.2+18.8+9.8−9.5+34.5−21.7+0.8+12.5+3.9+7.9
Motor vehicles and parts+4.5+4.3+6.2+9.4+8.3+7.9+12.2+12.4+10.7+10.7+9.2+8.9
Nondefense aircraft and parts+19.6+182.8+99.3+67.5+24.4−63.0+104.6−69.8−38.1+1.1−15.7+16.2

Each chip is one month's change from the same month a year earlier. The mark in its middle is zero: a fill to the right of it is a rise and a fill to the left a fall. A longer, brighter fill is a larger change, in five steps up to 28.8 and over. Every chip prints its figure and sign.

Observed .

Understanding durable goods by kind

Where it stands today

The largest change over a year was Primary metals, up 20.4%, in September 2026.

What do the lines of this page measure?

This page shows the Census Bureau's advance estimate of new orders for durable goods: the total, the total with transportation equipment or defense goods left out, three groups of capital goods and eight industries.

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What 500metrics adds: the change over a year of every line, ranked across the page; the last ten years of every line as rows of small charts; and a table of the change over a year in each of the last twelve months. Lines with a link have a page of their own with the history since the series begins.

The numbers behind the chart

What is the latest value of each line?14 lines, in the sections of the page
New orders for durable goods: the newest month of each line, its change over a year (ours) and its rank by that change; equal changes share a rank
LineSectionMonthValueChange over a yearRank
Durable goodsAll durable goods$345.4 billion+9.9%9
Without transportation equipmentAll durable goods$225.6 billion+11.1%7
Without defenseAll durable goods$321.1 billion+10.4%8
Capital goodsCapital goods$128.6 billion+13.0%6
Core capital goodsCapital goods$88.0 billion+13.5%5
Defense capital goodsCapital goods$20.8 billion+4.5%14
Primary metalsIndustries$33.0 billion+20.4%1
Fabricated metal productsIndustries$45.2 billion+8.3%11
MachineryIndustries$46.0 billion+16.1%4
Computers and electronic productsIndustries$31.3 billion+16.6%2
Electrical equipment and appliancesIndustries$18.9 billion+4.8%13
Transportation equipmentIndustries$119.8 billion+7.9%12
Motor vehicles and partsIndustries$73.4 billion+8.9%10
Nondefense aircraft and partsIndustries$25.3 billion+16.2%3

The table scrolls sideways; the first column stays in place.

What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

What this number cannot tell you

  • New orders are the dollar value of orders the manufacturers received in the month, net of cancellations, whether or not the goods were shipped. The advance report covers durable goods, the goods meant to last three years or more, and is based on reports from part of the Census Bureau's sample.
  • The sample of this survey is not a probability sample, so the Census Bureau does not publish a measure of sampling error for it. The Census Bureau revises the advance values in its full report on factory orders, which the factory orders page shows, and again later.
  • The Census Bureau adjusts the values for seasonal variation and trading days, but not for changes in prices.
  • The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the values the Census Bureau publishes; a change is in percent.
  • This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

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How to cite this

U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Indicators. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau., New orders, seasonally adjusted, through September 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How many orders do US factories get for each type of durable goods?", https://500metrics.com/durable-goods-orders.

Can the data be downloaded?durable-goods-orders.csv

Download the last ten years of every line as CSV: 1,694 rows, to , 94,598 bytes.

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