327991

Analysis

NAICS 327991 is the 2022 national industry for cut stone and stone product manufacturing, part of 32799 (All Other Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing). Census lists 18 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 2,163 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 35,087 people at an average annual payroll of $57,916 per employee (29th percentile of national industries). 35% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 4 codes at this level within All Other Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing, with 70.3% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include architectural sculptures, stone, manufacturing, baptismal fonts, cut stone, manufacturing, blackboards, unframed, slate, manufacturing and burial vaults, stone, manufacturing, among 18 in all.

Its goods appear in 23 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 6802 (worked monumental or building stone (except slate) and…), 6803 () and 6801 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, mining or quarrying stone are classified in 2123 (Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying) instead.