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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Receipts
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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62 | Health care & social assistance | Total | 704,526 | 1,207,299,734 | 495,845,829 | 15,052,255 |
| Exempt | 136,478 | 617,930,865 | 254,027,235 | 8,027,333 | |||
| Taxable | 568,048 | 589,368,869 | 241,818,594 | 7,024,922 | |||
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624 | Social assistance | Total | 139,752 | 91,454,799 | 36,376,408 | 2,122,503 |
| Exempt | 81,445 | 72,485,099 | 27,594,459 | 1,511,175 | |||
| Taxable | 58,307 | 18,969,700 | 8,781,949 | 611,328 | |||
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6242 | Community food & housing/emergency & other relief services | Total | 12,481 | 14,005,774 | 3,275,523 | 145,929 |
| Exempt | 12,133 | 13,923,572 | 3,250,281 | 144,498 | |||
| Taxable | 348 | 82,202 | 25,242 | 1,431 | |||
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62421 | Community food services | Total | 3,877 | 3,106,694 | 528,853 | 29,179 |
| Exempt | 3,770 | 3,090,585 | 524,512 | 28,869 | |||
| Taxable | 107 | 16,109 | 4,341 | 310 | |||
| 624210 | Community food services | Total | 3,877 | 3,106,694 | 528,853 | 29,179 | |
| Exempt | 3,770 | 3,090,585 | 524,512 | 28,869 | |||
| Taxable | 107 | 16,109 | 4,341 | 310 | |||
| NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
All firms | Nonemployers | Employers | ||||||
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| N = Not available | ||||||||||
| 62 | Health care & social assistance | 2,024,963 | 631,637,167 | 1,456,915 | 71.9 | 42,268,298 | 6.7 | 568,048 | 589,368,869 | |
| 624 | Social assistance | 775,412 | 27,640,096 | 717,105 | 92.5 | 8,670,396 | 31.4 | 58,307 | 18,969,700 | |
| 6242 | Community food & housing/emergency & other relief services | 4,713 | 149,239 | 4,365 | 92.6 | 67,037 | 44.9 | 348 | 82,202 | |
| 62421 | Community food services | N | N | N | N | N | N | 107 | 16,109 | |
| 624210 | Community food services | N | N | N | N | N | N | 107 | 16,109 | |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the collection, preparation, and delivery of food for the needy. Establishments in this industry may also distribute clothing and blankets to the poor. These establishments may prepare and deliver meals to persons who by reason of age, disability, or illness are unable to prepare meals for themselves; collect and distribute salvageable or donated food; or prepare and provide meals at fixed or mobile locations. Food banks, meal delivery programs, and soup kitchens are included in this industry.
NAICS
624210, Community food services,
is comparable between 2002 and 1997.
For comparisons with data before 1997, see the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.
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1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Receipts ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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| 624210 | Community food services | 2002 | 3,878 | 3,106,950 | 529,109 | 29,184 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 3,083 | 1,615,506 | 328,142 | 23,305 | ||||||||||
| % change | 25.8 | 92.3 | 61.2 | 25.2 | ||||||||||
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Data for the Health care & social assistance sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, places, and ZIP Codes.




















































| Product code | Product description | Sales of this line ($000) |
Percent of industry sales (%) |
Graph |
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| 30000 | Industry total | 3,106,694 | 100.00 | |
| 39710 | Contributions, gifts, & grants: Private | 1,626,057 | 52.34 | |
| 30390 | Payt-chdcare/csel/cmty food/temp shelt/rehab/rel soc prov ind/fam | 653,218 | 21.03 | |
| 39700 | Contributions, gifts, & grants: Government | 514,272 | 16.55 | |
| -Other | 313,147 | 10.08 |
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| Hypertext Tables | Title (with link to data) | Frequency | Contents | Geography |
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| County Business Patterns | Annual | Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment | US, states, metro areas, counties | |
| Service Annual Survey: Health Care and Social Assistance Services | Annual | Estimated Revenue for Employer and Nonemployer Firms | US | |
| Statistics of U.S. Businesses | Annual | Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise | US, states, metro areas |
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