NAICS 2022 · in 42362
423620
Household Appliances, Electric Housewares, and Consumer Electronics Merchant Wholesalers
Analysis
NAICS 423620 is the 2022 national industry for household appliances, electric housewares, and consumer electronics merchant wholesalers, part of 42362 (Household Appliances, Electric Housewares, and Consumer Electronics Merchant Wholesalers). Census lists 57 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 2,514 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 52,157 people at an average annual payroll of $98,264 per employee (83rd percentile of national industries). 53% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Census lists 5 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 423720, 423730, 238220 and 423410. 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.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include air-conditioners, room, merchant wholesalers, appliances, household-type (except water heaters, heating…, audio equipment, household-type, merchant wholesalers and automotive radios merchant wholesalers, among 57 in all.
For example, merchant wholesale distribution of gas and electric water heaters and heating stoves (i.e., noncooking) are classified in 423720 (Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies (Hydronics) Merchant Wholesalers) instead.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of household-type gas and electric appliances (except water heaters and heating stoves (i.e., noncooking)), room air-conditioners, and/or household-type audio or video equipment.
Illustrative Examples:
Household-type sewing machines merchant wholesalers Household-type radios (including automotive) merchant wholesalers Household-type video cameras merchant wholesalers Household-type refrigerators merchant wholesalers Television sets merchant wholesalers Toothbrushes, electric, merchant wholesalers Curling irons, electric, merchant wholesalers
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Merchant wholesale distribution of gas and electric water heaters and heating stoves (i.e., noncooking) | 423720 Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies (Hydronics) Merchant Wholesalers |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of warm air heating and air-conditioning equipment (except room units) | 423730 Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers |
| Selling and installing warm air heating and air-conditioning equipment | 238220 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of nonhousehold-type video cameras | 423410 Photographic Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers |
| Selling video security systems and providing system installation, repair, or monitoring services (except closed-circuit (CCTV)) | 561621 Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) |
Index entries (57)
- Air-conditioners, room, merchant wholesalers
- Appliances, household-type (except water heaters, heating stoves (i.e., noncooking)), gas and electric, merchant wholesalers
- Audio equipment, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Automotive radios merchant wholesalers
- Blankets, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Clothes dryers merchant wholesalers
- Coffee makers, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Compact disc players merchant wholesalers
- Consumer electronics merchant wholesalers
- Cooking equipment, gas and electric, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Curling irons, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Digital video disc (DVD) players merchant wholesalers
- Dishwashers, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Dryers, clothes, merchant wholesalers
- Dryers, hair, merchant wholesalers
- Electric blankets merchant wholesalers
- Fans, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Freezers, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Garbage disposal units, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Hair dryers, personal, merchant wholesalers
- Heaters, portable electric, merchant wholesalers
- Household-type appliances (except water heaters, heating stoves (i.e., noncooking)), gas and electric, merchant wholesalers
- Household-type laundry equipment (e.g., dryers, washers) merchant wholesalers
- Housewares, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers
- Humidifiers and dehumidifiers, portable, merchant wholesalers
- Insect control devices, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Irons, household-type, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Kitchen appliances, household-type, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers
- Laundry machinery and equipment, household-type (e.g., dryers, washers), merchant wholesalers
- Microwave ovens, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Movie apparatus, home, merchant wholesalers
- Outdoor grills merchant wholesalers
- Ovens, gas and electric, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Personal care appliances, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Radios, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Ranges, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers
- Razors, electric, merchant wholesalers
- Recorders (e.g., tape, video), household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Refrigerators, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Room air-conditioners merchant wholesalers