Egg industry in the U.S. - statistics & facts

Retail market

Eggs are provided in a wide array of forms in the food industry: besides shell eggs, you may find dried or powdered eggs. Most produced shell eggs go to retail in the U.S. In the retail market, the fresh egg department was dominated by private labels. The brands Eggland’s Best and Great Day Farmers Market followed with some distance. In 2020, the retail price for a dozen eggs in the United States was 1.48 U.S. dollars. Egg prices in the United States peaked in 2015, when a dozen eggs cost 2.75 U.S. dollars on average.

Egg consumption

On the consumer side, it is projected that the per capita consumption of eggs will reach 278.9 in 2018. The latest consumer data provided by the Experian Simmons National Consumer Study revealed that over 94 percent of American households use eggs. In 2019, consumers in the Western United States spent an average of about 69 U.S. dollars on eggs over the course of the year. The Midwestern United States had the lowest average expenditure on eggs in that year.

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