33611

Analysis

NAICS 33611 is the 2022 NAICS industry for automobile and light duty motor vehicle manufacturing, part of 3361 (Motor Vehicle Manufacturing).

It has only one more detailed code, 336110, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.

County Business Patterns counts 222 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 236,806 people at an average annual payroll of $118,412 per employee (90th percentile of national industries). 33% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, with 67.1% of them.

Its goods appear in 51 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8703 (motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed…), 8704 (motor vehicles for the transport of goods) and 8706 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 4% and employment rose 30%. 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.