Analysis
NAICS 336211 is the 2022 national industry for motor vehicle body manufacturing, part of 33621 (Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing). Census lists 29 example activities under it in the official index.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 19% and employment rose 16%. 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 855 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 58,318 people at an average annual payroll of $62,908 per employee (39th percentile of national industries). 19% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
By establishments it ranks 1st of the 4 codes at this level within Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing, with 38.9% of them.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include ambulance bodies manufacturing, ambulances assembling on purchased chassis, automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing and automobile wrecker truck bodies manufacturing, among 29 in all.
Its goods appear in 8 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8707 (bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles of headings…) and 8706 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing truck and bus bodies and cabs and automobile bodies. The products made may be sold separately or may be assembled on purchased chassis and sold as complete vehicles.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing complete automobiles and light duty motor vehicles (i.e., body and chassis or unibody) or manufacturing automobile and light duty motor vehicle chassis only | 336110 Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing heavy duty trucks, buses, motor homes, and other special purpose heavy duty motor vehicles for highway use (i.e., body and chassis) or manufacturing heavy duty truck chassis only | 336120 Heavy Duty Truck Manufacturing |
Index entries (29)
- Ambulance bodies manufacturing
- Ambulances assembling on purchased chassis
- Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing
- Automobile wrecker truck bodies manufacturing
- Automobile wreckers assembling on purchased chassis
- Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis
- Bus bodies assembling on purchased chassis
- Bus bodies manufacturing
- Car bodies, kit, manufacturing
- Dump-truck lifting mechanisms manufacturing
- Fifth-wheel assemblies manufacturing
- Garbage truck bodies manufacturing
- Garbage trucks assembling on purchased chassis
- Hearse bodies manufacturing
- Hearses assembling on purchased chassis
- Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis
- Highway tractors assembling on purchased chassis
- Kit car bodies manufacturing
- Ready-mix concrete trucks assembling on purchased chassis
- School buses assembling on purchased chassis
- Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis
- Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing
- Stretch limousines assembling on purchased chassis
- Tank bodies for trucks manufacturing
- Tank trucks (e.g., fuel oil, milk, water) assembling on purchased chassis
- Tow trucks (including tilt and load) assembling on purchased chassis
- Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing
- Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis
- Truck tractors for highway use, assembling on purchased chassis