311212

Analysis

NAICS 311212 is the 2022 national industry for rice milling, part of 31121 (Flour Milling and Malt Manufacturing). Census lists 16 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 89 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 6,433 people at an average annual payroll of $56,154 per employee (26th percentile of national industries). 19% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 16% and employment rose 20%. 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 index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include bran and other residues of milling rice, brewers' rice manufacturing, cleaning and polishing rice and flour, rice, manufacturing, among 16 in all.

Its goods appear in 19 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 1006 (rice), 1102 (cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin) and 1103 (cereal groats, meal and pellets). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, drying and/or dehydrating ingredients and packaging them with purchased rice are classified in 311423 (Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing) instead.