325611

Analysis

NAICS 325611 is the 2022 national industry for soap and other detergent manufacturing, part of 32561 (Soap and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing). Census lists 16 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 23% and employment rose 36%. 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.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 3 codes at this level within Soap and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing, with 60.1% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 845 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 33,783 people at an average annual payroll of $65,673 per employee (44th percentile of national industries). 40% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include bar soaps manufacturing, dentifrices manufacturing, detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry)… and dishwasher detergents manufacturing, among 16 in all.

Its goods appear in 12 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3401 (soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for…), 3402 (organic surface-active agents (other than soap)…) and 1520 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.