The market for crushed stone grew steadily through the first half of the last decade peaking in 2006 and then falling sharply as the housing market bubble imploded. The pattern can be seen clearly in the graphic which presents crushed stone sales, or use by producers, measured in quantity as well as value for the years 1995 through 2009.

Today’s market size is the value of crushed stone sales by producers in 2009. The data do not include American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2009
Market size: $11.3 billion
Source: “Table 1: Salient Crushed Stone Statistics,” 2009 Mineral Yearbook, April 2011, page 71.5, available online here. The graphic was produced with data from this report as well as earlier editions of the same report.
Original source: U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS