311213

Analysis

NAICS 311213 is the 2022 national industry for malt manufacturing, part of 31121 (Flour Milling and Malt Manufacturing). Census lists 12 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 12% and employment fell 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.

By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Flour Milling and Malt Manufacturing, with 9.1% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 42 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 810 people at an average annual payroll of $68,169 per employee (50th percentile of national industries). 50% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include barley, malt, manufacturing, brewers' malt manufacturing, corn, malt, manufacturing and distiller's malt manufacturing, among 12 in all.

Its goods appear in 2 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 1107 (malt, whether or not roasted). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.