311513

Analysis

NAICS 311513 is the 2022 national industry for cheese manufacturing, part of 31151 (Dairy Product (except Frozen) Manufacturing). Census lists 13 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 4 codes at this level within Dairy Product (except Frozen) Manufacturing, with 46% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 568 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 60,731 people at an average annual payroll of $63,875 per employee (41st percentile of national industries). 17% 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 cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing, cheese analogs manufacturing, cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing and cheese spreads manufacturing, among 13 in all.

Its goods appear in 160 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 0406 (cheese and curd), 1901 (malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal…) and 0404 (whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing cheese-based salad dressings are classified in 311941 (Mayonnaise, Dressing, and Other Prepared Sauce Manufacturing) instead.