Analysis
NAICS 336110 is the 2022 national industry for automobile and light duty motor vehicle manufacturing, part of 33611 (Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing). Census lists 19 example activities under it in the official index.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include assembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture, assembly plants, minivans on chassis of own manufacture, assembly plants, passenger car on chassis of own manufacture and assembly plants, sport utility vehicles on chassis of own…, among 19 in all.
Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 336211, 336213 and 336999. 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.
For example, manufacturing car, truck, and bus bodies and assembling vehicles on purchased chassis and manufacturing kit cars for highway use are classified in 336211 (Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing) instead.
County Business Patterns publishes no national count for it, either because the code is out of the survey's scope or because the figures are suppressed to protect individual businesses.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing complete automobiles and light duty motor vehicles (i.e., body and chassis or unibody) or (2) manufacturing automobile and light duty motor vehicle chassis only. Vehicles made include passenger cars, light duty trucks, light duty vans, pick-up trucks, minivans, and sport utility vehicles.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing car, truck, and bus bodies and assembling vehicles on purchased chassis and manufacturing kit cars for highway use | 336211 Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing motor homes on purchased light duty truck chassis | 336213 Motor Home Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing race cars | 336999 All Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing |
Index entries (19)
- Assembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture
- Assembly plants, minivans on chassis of own manufacture
- Assembly plants, passenger car on chassis of own manufacture
- Assembly plants, sport utility vehicles on chassis of own manufacture
- Automobiles assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Cab and chassis, light trucks and vans, manufacturing
- Cars, electric, for highway use, assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Chassis, automobile, manufacturing
- Chassis, light truck and utility, manufacturing
- Electric automobiles for highway use manufacturing
- Hearses assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Light utility trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Minivans assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Motor homes, self-contained, mounted on light duty truck chassis of own manufacture
- Pick-up trucks, light duty, assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Sport utility vehicles assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Trucks, light duty, assembling on chassis of own manufacture
- Unmanned and robotic automobiles manufacturing
- Vans, commercial and passenger light duty, assembling on chassis of own manufacture