BusinessDecember 5, 2022
Live Christmas tree supply 'tight'
National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA) reports the 2022 supply of farm-grown trees remains "tight" in 2022. In 2021, nearly 21 million real holiday trees were purchased at a median price of $69.50 per tree. The average buyer last year, NCTA said, was 40 years old, was a homeowner and lived in a household of more than three people...
National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA) reports the 2022 supply of farm-grown trees remains "tight" in 2022.
In 2021, nearly 21 million real holiday trees were purchased at a median price of $69.50 per tree.
The average buyer last year, NCTA said, was 40 years old, was a homeowner and lived in a household of more than three people.
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During the last Christmas season, Littleton, Colorado-based NCTA said, point-of-purchase locations were extremely varied:
- 28.5% — chain store (e.g., Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's).
- 26.8% — choose-and-cut farm
- 16.2% — retail lot
- 11.6% — tree nursery
- 7.4% — not-for-profit group (e.g., Boy Scouts, churches)
- 5.6% — online
- 3.9% — other
According to ABC News, most of the world's artificial Christmas trees are manufactured in the Pearl River Delta area of China.
A 2008 Environmental Protection Agency report found that of the 50 million artificial trees in the U.S. that year, approximately 20 million were at least nine years old — the point by which, EPA said, dangerous lead contamination levels may be reached because of the degradation of PVC stabilizers.
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