Industry Statistics Sampler
NAICS 532
Rental and leasing services

Definition: NAICS 532   Rental and leasing services

Industries in the Rental and Leasing Services subsector include establishments that provide a wide array of tangible goods, such as automobiles, computers, consumer goods, and industrial machinery and equipment, to customers in return for a periodic rental or lease payment.

The subsector includes two main types of establishments: (1) those that are engaged in renting consumer goods and equipment and (2) those that are engaged in leasing machinery and equipment often used for business operations. The first type typically operates from a retail-like or store-front facility and maintains inventories of goods that are rented for short periods of time. The latter type typically does not operate from retail-like locations or maintain inventories, and offers longer term leases. These establishments work directly with clients to enable them to acquire the use of equipment on a lease basis, or they work with equipment vendors or dealers to support the marketing of equipment to their customers under lease arrangements. Equipment lessors generally structure lease contracts to meet the specialized needs of their clients and use their remarketing expertise to find other users for previously leased equipment. Establishments that provide operating and capital (i.e., finance) leases are included in this subsector.

Historical comparability

  NAICS 532, Rental and leasing services, is comparable between 2002 and 1997.

Products Lines for Rental and leasing services

Product code	Product description	Sales of this line ($000)	Percent of industry sales (%)	Graph
50000	Industry total	95,107,151	100.00
52500	Passenger cars/other automotive w/o drivers rental/leasing	34,252,881	36.02
52580	Commercial & industrial machinery & equip rental/leasing	32,956,488	34.65
52600	Consumer goods rental/leasing	19,761,841	20.78
52720	Sales of merchandise	4,904,254	5.16
	-Other	3,231,687	3.40

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Products, Size, and Other Data from the Economic Census -- Rental and leasing services

Link to pdf	Series number	Title	Link to AFF or Drill-down tables	Contents	Geography
	EC02-00C-COMP	Comparative Statistics		2002 and 1997 data side by side on a comparable NAICS 1997 basis	US, states
	EC02-53SL-LS	Product Lines		Product Lines by Kind of Business	US
	EC02-53SS-SZ	Establishment and Firm Size		Revenue Size of Establishments	US
	Employment Size of Establishments	US
	Single Unit & Multiunit Firms	US
	Revenue Size of Firms	US
	Employment Size of Firms	US
	Concentration by Largest Firms	US
	Legal Form of Organization	US
	BE02-00I-1	Business Expenses		Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (1997 NAICS Basis)	US
	Relative Standard Errors for Sales & Operating Expenses by Kind of Business (1997 NAICS Basis)	US
	EC02-53A	Geographic Area Series		Summary Statistics	US, states, counties, metros
	SB02-00A	Survey of Business Owners		Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race	US

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