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| Employers | Nonemployers | Compare to '97 | States | Products, Size, etc. | ||
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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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62422 | Community housing services | Total | 6,797 | 5,803,471 | 2,093,323 | 93,579 |
| Exempt | 6,638 | 5,752,209 | 2,076,735 | 92,724 | |||
| Taxable | 159 | 51,262 | 16,588 | 855 | |||
| 624221 | Temporary shelters | Total | 3,434 | 2,755,992 | 1,271,771 | 61,272 | |
| Exempt | 3,383 | 2,728,901 | 1,263,518 | 60,871 | |||
| Taxable | 51 | 27,091 | 8,253 | 401 | |||
| 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 | |
| 62422 | Community housing services | N | N | N | N | N | N | 159 | 51,262 | |
| 624221 | Temporary shelters | N | N | N | N | N | N | 51 | 27,091 | |
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing (1) short term emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or child abuse and/or (2) temporary residential shelter for homeless individuals or families, runaway youth, and patients and families caught in medical crises. These establishments may operate their own shelters or may subsidize housing using existing homes, apartments, hotels, or motels.
Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in providing emergency shelter for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts are classified in Industry 624230, Emergency and Other Relief Services.
NAICS
624221, Temporary shelters,
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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| 624221 | Temporary shelters | 2002 | 3,434 | 2,755,992 | 1,271,771 | 61,272 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 2,595 | 1,549,179 | 675,704 | 40,136 | ||||||||||
| % change | 32.3 | 77.9 | 88.2 | 52.7 | ||||||||||
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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 | 2,755,992 | 100.00 | |
| 39700 | Contributions, gifts, & grants: Government | 963,090 | 34.95 | |
| 39710 | Contributions, gifts, & grants: Private | 817,131 | 29.65 | |
| 30390 | Payt-chdcare/csel/cmty food/temp shelt/rehab/rel soc prov ind/fam | 781,652 | 28.36 | |
| -Other | 194,119 | 7.04 |
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