335220

Analysis

NAICS 335220 is the 2022 national industry for major household appliance manufacturing, part of 33522 (Major Household Appliance Manufacturing). Census lists 27 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 180 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 47,877 people at an average annual payroll of $58,031 per employee (29th percentile of national industries). 34% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 10% and employment rose 11%. 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.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing, braziers, barbecue, manufacturing, convection ovens (including portable), household-type… and dishwashers, household-type, manufacturing, among 27 in all.

Its goods appear in 94 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8418 (refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing…), 8516 (electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and…) and 7321 (stoves, ranges, grates, cookers (including those with…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 4 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 335210, 333415, 333310 and 333248. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.