Analysis
NAICS 1153 is the 2022 industry group for support activities for forestry, part of 115 (Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry).
It has only one more detailed code, 115310, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.
By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry, with 17% of them.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 12% and employment rose 15%. 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.
County Business Patterns counts 2,023 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 15,361 people at an average annual payroll of $65,246 per employee (43rd percentile of national industries). 72% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which marks it as a small-business industry.