3121

Analysis

NAICS 3121 is the 2022 industry group for beverage manufacturing, part of 312 (Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing). Census lists 70 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 25% and employment rose 24%. 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.

County Business Patterns counts 12,452 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 279,743 people at an average annual payroll of $57,553 per employee (28th percentile of national industries). 34% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing, with 99% of them.

Across its national industries Census lists 70 index entries; typical ones are artificially carbonated waters manufacturing, beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing, block ice manufacturing and ale brewing.

Its goods appear in 101 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2208 (undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by…), 2204 (wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must…) and 2206 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.