Analysis
NAICS 2361 is the 2022 industry group for residential building construction, part of 236 (Construction of Buildings).
It has only one more detailed code, 23611, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 18% and employment rose 26%. 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 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Construction of Buildings, with 83.3% of them.
County Business Patterns counts 212,178 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 905,357 people at an average annual payroll of $71,083 per employee (55th percentile of national industries). 79% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which marks it as a small-business industry.