339995

Analysis

NAICS 339995 is the 2022 national industry for burial casket manufacturing, part of 33999 (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing). Census lists 4 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 24% and employment fell 9%. 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 72 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 3,369 people at an average annual payroll of $50,099 per employee (18th percentile of national industries). 31% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 6th of the 6 codes at this level within All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, with 1.6% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include burial caskets and cases manufacturing, burial vaults (except concrete, stone) manufacturing, caskets, burial, manufacturing and vaults (except concrete) manufacturing.

Its goods appear in 3 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 4421 (other articles of wood) and 7326 (other articles of iron or steel). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.