32561

Analysis

NAICS 32561 is the 2022 NAICS industry for soap and cleaning compound manufacturing, part of 3256 (Soap, Cleaning Compound, and Toilet Preparation Manufacturing). Census lists 72 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Soap, Cleaning Compound, and Toilet Preparation Manufacturing, with 56.2% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 1,406 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 57,187 people at an average annual payroll of $73,789 per employee (59th percentile of national industries). 37% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 9% and employment rose 20%. 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.

Across its national industries Census lists 72 index entries; typical ones are bar soaps manufacturing, air fresheners manufacturing and assistants, textile and leather finishing, manufacturing.

Its goods appear in 66 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3402 (organic surface-active agents (other than soap)…), 3403 (lubricating preparations (including cutting-oil…) and 3401 (soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.