Analysis
NAICS 4854 is the 2022 industry group for school and employee bus transportation, part of 485 (Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation).
It has only one more detailed code, 485410, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.
County Business Patterns counts 4,027 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 221,741 people at an average annual payroll of $32,105 per employee (5th percentile of national industries). 24% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 7% and employment fell 6%. 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.
By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 6 codes at this level within Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation, with 19.8% of them.