Analysis
NAICS 444240 is the 2022 national industry for nursery, garden center, and farm supply retailers, part of 44424 (Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers). Census lists 7 example activities under it in the official index.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include christmas trees, cut, direct selling, farm supply stores, feed stores (except pet) and garden centers, among 7 in all.
Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 424910, 561730 and 111421. 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, merchant wholesale distribution of farm supplies are classified in 424910 (Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers) 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 retailing nursery and garden products, such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod, that are predominantly grown elsewhere. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a product they grow themselves. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in retailing farm supplies, such as animal (except pet) feed, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, and pesticides.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (7)
- Christmas trees, cut, direct selling
- Farm supply stores
- Feed stores (except pet)
- Garden centers
- Lawn supply stores
- Nurseries, retail, stock primarily grown off premises
- Nursery and garden centers without tree production