Analysis
NAICS 1152 is the 2022 industry group for support activities for animal production, part of 115 (Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry).
It has only one more detailed code, 115210, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.
County Business Patterns counts 4,791 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 23,365 people at an average annual payroll of $45,166 per employee (13th percentile of national industries). 78% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which marks it as a small-business industry.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 1% and employment rose 12%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.
By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 3 codes at this level within Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry, with 40.3% of them.