212321

Analysis

NAICS 212321 is the 2022 national industry for construction sand and gravel mining, part of 21232 (Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying). Census lists 7 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 16% and employment rose 21%. 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 2,282 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 25,397 people at an average annual payroll of $79,309 per employee (68th percentile of national industries). 40% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying, with 87.2% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include common sand quarrying and/or beneficiating, construction sand and gravel beneficiating (e.g., grinding…, construction sand or gravel dredging and gravel quarrying and/or beneficiating, among 7 in all.

Its goods appear in 1 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2517 (pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.