332311

Analysis

NAICS 332311 is the 2022 national industry for prefabricated metal building and component manufacturing, part of 33231 (Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing). Census lists 16 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 17% and employment rose 10%. 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.

County Business Patterns counts 867 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 30,845 people at an average annual payroll of $74,506 per employee (61st percentile of national industries). 37% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing, with 14.4% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing, carports, prefabricated metal, manufacturing, dwellings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing and farm buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing, among 16 in all.

Its goods appear in 4 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 9406 (prefabricated buildings). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.