Data from the RV Industry Association’s monthly survey of manufacturers for June 2025 was recently posted. Total RV shipments for the first half of 2025 that ended in June were up 6.8% with 190,705 units. Additionally, this 6-month total represents over on-half (57.1%) of all 2024 shipments.
In June 2025 29,332 units were shipped, a 15.9 percent increase over the 25,308 units shipped in June 2024.
For comparison, shipments for all of 2024 were 333,733 well below the peak of 600,240 reached in 2021. 2024 shipments were also higher than the 45-year mean of 295,146 units. So, it looks at this point 2025 RV shipments will maintain the upward momentum building since 2023.
You can see in the chart below that most of the volatility arises from Towable RV shipments. These include four categories [travel trailers, fifth wheels, folding camping trailers, and truck campers]. Motorhome shipments have been more stable in recent years and include those from the larger Class A's and C's, as well as, the Class B vans.
While the motorhome shipments have been relatively stable overall, there is more variability month-to-month when looking at the subcategories. Class C's are the largest of the three categories. And, Class A shipments historically exceeded those of camper vans. Though this latter pattern changed in late 2021 and since then, more Class B's are shipped each month.
While relatively small when compared with other categories, Class B shipments of 8,349 units in 2024 were several times larger than the 2,123 units in 2012 or 2,177 units shipped in 2013. However, they were quite a bit lower than the 17,026 units shipped in 2022 or 11,932 units shipped in 2023.
With 4,265 Class B units shipped through the first six months of 2025, it looks like Class B units shipped this year will just about equal the total for 2024.
Class B's represented roughly 7% of motorhome units shipped from 2012 through 2016, they peaked at 29% of motorhomes shipped in 2022. Since this peak, the number of Class B units shipped has fluctuated in a range between 20% and 30% of all motorhome shipments.
Meanwhile, the percentage of motorhomes shipped peaked at over 20% of all RVs shipped in early 2023 and has been declining to where motorhomes now account for roughly 10% of all RV shipments.
Comment below if you have any insights and observations or have questions and suggestions. While we are longtime campers, I do not work in the RV industry. I initially pulled together the numbers as a Covid lockdown project and maintain them now as a hobby.
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