Analysis
NAICS 456130 is the 2022 national industry for optical goods retailers, part of 45613 (Optical Goods Retailers). Census lists 3 example activities under it in the official index.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include lens grinding, ophthalmic, in retail stores, optical goods stores (except offices of optometrists… and sunglass stores.
For example, grinding ophthalmic lenses without retailing lenses are classified in 339115 (Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing) instead.
Census lists 2 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 339115 and 621. 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.
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 one or more of the following: (1) retailing and fitting prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses; (2) retailing prescription eyeglasses in combination with the grinding of lenses to order on the premises; and (3) retailing nonprescription eyeglasses.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (3)
- Lens grinding, ophthalmic, in retail stores
- Optical goods stores (except offices of optometrists, ophthalmologists)
- Sunglass stores