Analysis
NAICS 5331 is the 2022 industry group for lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works), part of 533 (Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works)).
It has only one more detailed code, 533110, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.
County Business Patterns counts 2,701 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 44,095 people at an average annual payroll of $136,596 per employee (95th percentile of national industries). 64% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which marks it as a small-business industry.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 1% and employment rose 13%. 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.