3241

Analysis

NAICS 3241 is the 2022 industry group for petroleum and coal products manufacturing, part of 324 (Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing). Census lists 102 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 2,073 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 100,856 people at an average annual payroll of $128,045 per employee (93rd percentile of national industries). 33% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Across its national industries Census lists 102 index entries; typical ones are acid oils made in petroleum refineries, asphalt paving blocks made from purchased asphaltic…, asphalt roofing cements made from purchased asphaltic… and brake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum.

Its goods appear in 96 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2710 (petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals…), 2712 (petroleum jelly; paraffin wax, microcrystalline petroleum…) and 2713 (petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

It splits into 3 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 32412 (Asphalt Paving, Roofing, and Saturated Materials Manufacturing) with 1,580.

Its more detailed codes are 32411 Petroleum Refineries (143 establishments), 32412 Asphalt Paving, Roofing, and Saturated Materials Manufacturing (1,580 establishments) and 32419 Other Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing (350 establishments).