32531

Analysis

NAICS 32531 is the 2022 NAICS industry for fertilizer and compost manufacturing, part of 3253 (Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing). Census lists 28 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 781 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 24,723 people at an average annual payroll of $96,110 per employee (81st percentile of national industries). 29% 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 Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing, with 75.6% of them.

Across its national industries Census lists 28 index entries; typical ones are ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing, ammonium phosphates manufacturing, fertilizers, mixed, made in plants not manufacturing… and compost manufacturing.

Its goods appear in 38 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3102 (mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous), 3105 (mineral or chemical fertilizers containing two or three of…) and 2809 (diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid;polyphosphoric…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

It splits into 4 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 325314 (Fertilizer (Mixing Only) Manufacturing) with 508.