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NAICS 2022

62

Health Care and Social Assistance

Analysis

NAICS 62 is the 2022 sector for health care and social assistance. Census lists 471 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 1,003,398 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 22,063,238 people at an average annual payroll of $63,214 per employee (40th percentile of national industries). 47% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 11% and employment rose 8%. 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.

Across its national industries Census lists 471 index entries; typical ones are acupuncturists' (MDs or DOs) offices (e.g., centers…, doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs), mental health…, DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers… and chiropractors' offices (e.g., centers, clinics).

It splits into 4 more detailed codes. The largest by establishments is 621 (Ambulatory Health Care Services) with 701,862.

Its more detailed codes are 621 Ambulatory Health Care Services (701,862 establishments), 622 Hospitals (7,523 establishments), 623 Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (94,771 establishments) and 624 Social Assistance (199,242 establishments).

Official definition

The Sector as a Whole

The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals. The sector includes both health care and social assistance because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries of these two activities. The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance. Establishments in this sector deliver services by trained professionals. All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry.

Excluded from this sector are yoga and aerobics instruction in Subsector 611, Educational Services, physical fitness facilities in Subsector 713, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries, and personal fitness training services and non-medical diet and weight reducing centers in Subsector 812, Personal and Laundry Services. Although these can be viewed as health services, these services are not typically delivered by health practitioners.

Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.

Index entries (471)

  • Acupuncturists' (MDs or DOs) offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs), mental health, offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Chiropractors' offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Doctors of optometry (ODs) offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Clinical psychologists' offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Art therapists' offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Doctors of podiatry (DPs) offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Acupuncturists' (except MDs or DOs) offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
  • Abortion clinics
  • Alcoholism treatment centers and clinics (except hospitals), outpatient
  • Group hospitalization plans providing health care services
  • Dialysis centers and clinics
  • Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding
  • Biofeedback centers and clinics, outpatient
  • Bacteriological laboratories, diagnostic
  • CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner centers
  • Home care of elderly, medical
  • Air ambulance services
  • Blood banks
  • Blood pressure screening facilities
  • Children's hospitals, general
  • Alcoholism rehabilitation hospitals
  • Cancer hospitals
  • Assisted living facilities (without nursing facilities) for the elderly with nursing care
  • Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability
  • Alcoholism rehabilitation facilities (except licensed hospitals), residential
  • Assisted living facilities with on-site nursing facilities
  • Assisted living facilities for the elderly without nursing care
  • Boot camps for delinquent youth
  • Adoption agencies
  • Activity centers for disabled persons and the elderly
  • Alcoholism and drug addiction self-help organizations
  • Community meals, social services
  • Battered women's shelters
  • Energy assistance programs
  • Disaster relief services
  • Habilitation job counseling and training, vocational
  • Babysitting services in provider's own home, child care