311911

Analysis

NAICS 311911 is the 2022 national industry for roasted nuts and peanut butter manufacturing, part of 31191 (Snack Food Manufacturing). Census lists 7 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 267 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 19,949 people at an average annual payroll of $62,445 per employee (38th percentile of national industries). 27% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Snack Food Manufacturing, with 35.2% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include canned nuts manufacturing, nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing, nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing and peanut butter blended with jelly manufacturing, among 7 in all.

Its goods appear in 23 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2008 (fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise…) and 1202 (peanuts (ground-nuts), not roasted or otherwise cooked…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing chocolate or candy-coated nuts and candy-covered popcorn are classified in 3113 (Sugar and Confectionery Product Manufacturing) instead.