311514

Analysis

NAICS 311514 is the 2022 national industry for dry, condensed, and evaporated dairy product manufacturing, part of 31151 (Dairy Product (except Frozen) Manufacturing). Census lists 34 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 174 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 17,210 people at an average annual payroll of $74,995 per employee (62nd percentile of national industries). 13% 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 baby formula, fresh, processed, and bottled, manufacturing, beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based, casein, dry and wet, manufacturing and condensed milk manufacturing, among 34 in all.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 8% and employment rose 3%. 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 goods appear in 105 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 1901 (malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal…), 0402 (milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or…) and 0403 (yogurt; buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 311511, 311512 and 311513. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.