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NAICS 31-33 Manufacturing |
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Indus- try Detail |
NAICS code |
NAICS Title (and link to definition) |
Estab- lish- ments |
Value of shipments
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
|
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31-33 | Manufacturing | 362,829 | 3,834,700,920 | 569,808,845 | 16,805,127 | ||
311 | Food mfg | 26,302 | 421,737,017 | 38,366,240 | 1,466,956 | ||
312 | Beverage & tobacco product mfg | 2,727 | 96,971,368 | 6,735,295 | 175,711 | ||
313 | Textile mills | 4,694 | 58,707,401 | 10,058,482 | 391,899 | ||
314 | Textile product mills | 7,899 | 31,051,835 | 5,088,653 | 235,441 | ||
315 | Apparel mfg | 16,989 | 68,018,116 | 12,582,352 | 710,796 | ||
316 | Leather & allied product mfg | 1,861 | 10,876,510 | 1,832,341 | 85,115 | ||
321 | Wood product mfg | 17,367 | 88,470,180 | 14,319,193 | 570,034 | ||
322 | Paper mfg | 5,868 | 150,295,890 | 22,311,971 | 574,274 | ||
323 | Printing & related support activities | 42,863 | 97,485,138 | 26,022,991 | 834,404 | ||
324 | Petroleum & coal products mfg | 2,146 | 177,393,098 | 5,546,082 | 107,625 | ||
325 | Chemical mfg | 13,474 | 415,616,508 | 39,835,717 | 882,645 | ||
326 | Plastics & rubber products mfg | 16,821 | 159,161,346 | 29,804,904 | 1,023,060 | ||
327 | Nonmetallic mineral product mfg | 16,310 | 86,464,708 | 16,172,049 | 501,471 | ||
331 | Primary metal mfg | 5,059 | 168,117,728 | 23,811,233 | 605,085 | ||
332 | Fabricated metal product mfg | 62,384 | 242,813,453 | 56,631,583 | 1,763,772 | ||
333 | Machinery mfg | 30,599 | 270,687,165 | 53,012,226 | 1,420,512 | ||
334 | Computer & electronic product mfg | 17,435 | 439,381,300 | 72,483,848 | 1,691,146 | ||
335 | Electrical equipment, appliance, & component mfg | 6,930 | 112,116,267 | 18,972,741 | 593,802 | ||
336 | Transportation equipment mfg | 12,887 | 575,306,996 | 79,616,518 | 1,842,315 | ||
337 | Furniture & related product mfg | 20,738 | 64,299,098 | 14,986,222 | 603,668 | ||
339 | Miscellaneous mfg | 31,476 | 99,729,798 | 21,618,204 | 725,396 |
Table includes only establishments with payroll.
NAICS
Sector: 31-33 Manufacturing
.
The Manufacturing sector comprises establishments engaged in the
mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials,
substances, or components into new products. The assembling of
component parts of manufactured products is considered manufacturing,
except in cases where the activity is appropriately classified in
Sector 23, Construction.
Establishments in the Manufacturing sector are often described as
plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power-driven
machines and materials-handling equipment. However, establishments that
transform materials or substances into new products by hand or in the
worker's home and those engaged in selling to the general public
products made on the same premises from which they are sold, such as
bakeries, candy stores, and custom tailors, may also be included in
this sector. Manufacturing establishments may process materials or may
contract with other establishments to process their materials for them.
Both types of establishments are included in manufacturing.
The materials, substances, or components transformed by manufacturing
establishments are raw materials that are products of agriculture,
forestry, fishing, mining, or quarrying as well as products of other
manufacturing establishments. The materials used may be purchased
directly from producers, obtained through customary trade channels, or
secured without recourse to the market by transferring the product from
one establishment to another, under the same ownership.
The new product of a manufacturing establishment may be finished in the
sense that it is ready for utilization or consumption, or it may be
semifinished to become an input for an establishment engaged in further
manufacturing. For example, the product of the alumina refinery is the
input used in the primary production of aluminum; primary aluminum is
the input to an aluminum wire drawing plant; and aluminum wire is the
input for a fabricated wire product manufacturing establishment.
The subsectors in the Manufacturing sector generally reflect distinct
production processes related to material inputs, production equipment,
and employee skills. In the machinery area, where assembling is a key
activity, parts and accessories for manufactured products are
classified in the industry of the finished manufactured item when they
are made for separate sale. For example, a replacement refrigerator
door would be classified with refrigerators and an attachment for a
piece of metal working machinery would be classified with metal working
machinery. However, components, input from other manufacturing
establishments, are classified based on the production function of the
component manufacturer. For example, electronic components are
classified in Subsector 334, Computer and Electronic Product
Manufacturing and stampings are classified in Subsector 332, Fabricated
Metal Product Manufacturing.
Manufacturing establishments often perform one or more activities that
are classified outside the Manufacturing sector of NAICS. For instance,
almost all manufacturing has some captive research and development or
administrative operations, such as accounting, payroll, or management.
These captive services are treated the same as captive manufacturing
activities. When the services are provided by separate establishments,
they are classified to the NAICS sector where such services are
primary, not in manufacturing.
The boundaries of manufacturing and the other sectors of the
classification system can be somewhat blurry. The establishments in the
manufacturing sector are engaged in the transformation of materials
into new products. Their output is a new product. However, the
definition of what constitutes a new product can be somewhat
subjective. As clarification, the following activities are considered
manufacturing in NAICS: milk bottling and pasteurizing; water bottling
and processing; fresh fish packaging (oyster shucking, fish filleting);
apparel jobbing (assigning of materials to contract factories or shops
for fabrication or other contract operations) as well as contracting
on materials owned by others; printing and related activities;
ready-mixed concrete production; leather converting; grinding of lenses
to prescription; wood preserving; electroplating, plating, metal heat
treating, and polishing for the trade; lapidary work for the trade;
fabricating signs and advertising displays; rebuilding or
remanufacturing machinery (i.e., automotive parts); ship repair and
renovation; machine shops; and tire retreading.
Conversely, there are activities that are sometimes
considered manufacturing, but which for NAICS are classified in another
sector (i.e., not classified as manufacturing). They include:
Logging, classified in Sector 11, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and
Hunting is considered a harvesting operation;
The beneficiating of ores and other minerals, classified in Sector
21, Mining, is considered part of the activity of mining;
The construction of structures and fabricating operations performed
at the site of construction by contractors, is classified in Sector 23,
Construction;
Establishments engaged in breaking of bulk and redistribution in
smaller lots, including packaging, repackaging, or bottling products,
such as liquors or chemicals; the customized assembly of computers;
sorting of scrap; mixing paints to customer order; and cutting metals
to customer order, classified in Sector 42, Wholesale Trade or Sector
44-45, Retail Trade, produce a modified version of the same product,
not a new product; and
Publishing and the combined activity of publishing and printing,
classified in Sector 51, Information, perform the transformation of
information into a product where as the value of the product to the
consumer lies in the information content, not in the format in which it
is distributed (i.e., the book or software diskette).
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Other Indus- tries |
State | Estab- lish- ments |
Value of shipments
($1,000) |
Value of shipments % of U.S. |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
|
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United States | 362,829 | 3,834,700,920 | 100.00 | 569,808,845 | 16,805,127 | ||
California | 49,418 | 379,612,443 | 9.90 | 65,762,848 | 1,809,667 | ||
Texas | 21,808 | 297,657,003 | 7.76 | 32,760,820 | 959,665 | ||
Ohio | 17,974 | 241,902,924 | 6.31 | 35,950,500 | 984,201 | ||
Michigan | 16,045 | 214,900,655 | 5.60 | 34,418,934 | 833,429 | ||
Illinois | 17,953 | 200,019,991 | 5.22 | 31,837,943 | 887,350 | ||
Pennsylvania | 17,128 | 172,193,216 | 4.49 | 27,641,293 | 826,521 | ||
North Carolina | 11,306 | 161,900,477 | 4.22 | 21,297,913 | 773,548 | ||
New York | 23,908 | 146,720,195 | 3.83 | 26,515,818 | 785,891 | ||
Indiana | 9,303 | 142,270,702 | 3.71 | 22,121,447 | 625,692 | ||
Georgia | 9,083 | 124,526,834 | 3.25 | 15,534,058 | 533,830 | ||
Wisconsin | 9,936 | 117,382,992 | 3.06 | 18,766,395 | 562,479 | ||
Tennessee | 7,407 | 98,503,080 | 2.57 | 14,351,915 | 483,823 | ||
New Jersey | 11,812 | 97,060,800 | 2.53 | 15,430,197 | 409,788 | ||
Missouri | 7,497 | 93,115,478 | 2.43 | 11,647,050 | 371,448 | ||
Kentucky | 4,218 | 86,636,107 | 2.26 | 9,198,091 | 288,405 | ||
Virginia | 5,986 | 83,814,009 | 2.19 | 11,557,793 | 370,595 | ||
Louisiana | 3,545 | 80,423,978 | 2.10 | 6,054,513 | 165,777 | ||
Washington | 7,801 | 78,852,486 | 2.06 | 13,004,063 | 328,511 | ||
Massachusetts | 9,554 | 77,876,576 | 2.03 | 16,378,989 | 417,135 | ||
Florida | 15,992 | 77,477,510 | 2.02 | 13,185,078 | 433,149 | ||
Minnesota | 8,091 | 76,244,894 | 1.99 | 13,126,112 | 382,530 | ||
South Carolina | 4,450 | 70,797,020 | 1.85 | 10,369,419 | 346,142 | ||
Alabama | 5,444 | 67,970,076 | 1.77 | 10,187,756 | 352,618 | ||
Iowa | 3,749 | 62,413,687 | 1.63 | 7,573,258 | 235,880 | ||
Oregon | 5,768 | 47,665,990 | 1.24 | 7,095,286 | 213,111 | ||
Connecticut | 5,844 | 46,938,210 | 1.22 | 10,452,076 | 252,330 | ||
Kansas | 3,309 | 46,296,431 | 1.21 | 6,532,458 | 193,742 | ||
Arkansas | 3,316 | 45,185,963 | 1.18 | 5,778,437 | 230,153 | ||
Arizona | 4,917 | 43,030,348 | 1.12 | 6,753,601 | 193,616 | ||
Colorado | 5,480 | 40,012,820 | 1.04 | 6,176,805 | 173,069 | ||
Mississippi | 3,008 | 39,658,260 | 1.03 | 5,599,392 | 227,800 | ||
Oklahoma | 4,087 | 37,453,197 | 0.98 | 4,963,236 | 164,060 | ||
Maryland | 3,996 | 36,505,948 | 0.95 | 5,840,454 | 163,992 | ||
Nebraska | 1,960 | 27,859,177 | 0.73 | 3,040,509 | 106,690 | ||
Utah | 2,860 | 24,014,379 | 0.63 | 3,726,130 | 119,140 | ||
New Hampshire | 2,328 | 19,813,107 | 0.52 | 3,361,445 | 98,934 | ||
West Virginia | 1,505 | 18,293,309 | 0.48 | 2,460,697 | 72,813 | ||
New Mexico | 1,593 | 17,906,091 | 0.47 | 1,135,818 | 39,664 | ||
Idaho | 1,647 | 16,952,872 | 0.44 | 2,099,750 | 66,184 | ||
Maine | 1,812 | 14,097,609 | 0.37 | 2,591,070 | 82,288 | ||
Delaware | 675 | 13,397,302 | 0.35 | 1,474,267 | 41,084 | ||
South Dakota | 888 | 12,305,468 | 0.32 | 1,162,575 | 46,539 | ||
Rhode Island | 2,535 | 10,482,011 | 0.27 | 2,288,614 | 75,599 | ||
Vermont | 1,226 | 7,803,041 | 0.20 | 1,459,605 | 42,533 | ||
Nevada | 1,615 | 6,361,782 | 0.17 | 1,178,047 | 37,849 | ||
North Dakota | 704 | 5,115,890 | 0.13 | 604,752 | 21,956 | ||
Montana | 1,160 | 4,866,279 | 0.13 | 560,115 | 19,611 | ||
Alaska | 488 | 3,304,952 | 0.09 | 331,193 | 10,770 | ||
Hawaii | 921 | 3,192,532 | 0.08 | 405,045 | 15,109 | ||
Wyoming | 503 | 2,955,070 | 0.08 | 256,382 | 8,448 | ||
District of Columbia | 200 | 320,234 | 0.01 | 101,108 | 2,858 |
D = Withheld to avoid disclosure; N = Not available
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Annual Capital Expenditures Survey
Annual
U.S.
Capital expenditures for structures and equipment for companies with paid employees
Annual Survey of Manufactures
Annual
State
Detailed national statistics for the industry; 7-digit product classes; general statistics for states
County Business Patterns
Annual
County, metro area, ZIP
Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment
E-Commerce Statistics
Annual
U.S.
Total sales and e-commerce sales, receipts or value of shipments
Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
Monthly
U.S.
Value of shipments, inventories, new orders and unfilled orders
Monthly Trade Inventory and Sales
Monthly
U.S.
Monthly ...
Nonemployer Statistics
Annual
State, metro area, county
Number of establishments and sales of firms with no paid employees
Quarterly Financial Report
Quarterly
U.S.
Income, retained earnings, balance sheets, and related financial and operating ratios for the domestic operations of manufacturing corporations
with assets over $250,000, and corporations in the mining and trade areas with over $50 million.
Statistics of U.S. Businesses
Annual
State, metro area
Number of firms, employees, payroll, and revenue by employment-size of the enterprise
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Source: 1997 Economic Census
Last revised: November 04 2004
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