311512

Analysis

NAICS 311512 is the 2022 national industry for creamery butter manufacturing, part of 31151 (Dairy Product (except Frozen) Manufacturing). Census lists 5 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 4th of the 4 codes at this level within Dairy Product (except Frozen) Manufacturing, with 4.4% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 54 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 4,055 people at an average annual payroll of $71,476 per employee (55th percentile of national industries). 22% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include anhydrous butterfat manufacturing, butter manufacturing, butter, creamery and whey, manufacturing and creamery butter manufacturing, among 5 in all.

Its goods appear in 10 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 0405 (butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing margarine, margarine-butter blends, or butter substitutes are classified in 311225 (Fats and Oils Refining and Blending) instead.