21239

Analysis

NAICS 21239 is the 2022 NAICS industry for other nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying, part of 2123 (Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying).

It has only one more detailed code, 212390, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.

County Business Patterns counts 236 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 10,238 people at an average annual payroll of $102,471 per employee (85th percentile of national industries). 34% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying, with 4.5% of them.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 12% and employment rose 5%. 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.

Its goods appear in 37 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2530 (mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included), 2524 (asbestos) and 2528 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.