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2022 Economic Census / NAICS 721310

Rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, and workers' camps

The four largest firms in Rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, and workers' camps accounted for 39.3% of the industry's 2022 sales, value of shipments, or revenue, and its concentration (HHI 493) ranks 220 of 679 detailed industries in the Economic Census. What is HHI?

National employer-firm concentration for this detailed industry, measured from sales, value of shipments, or revenue. Census categories are statistical groupings, not necessarily antitrust markets.

Detailed industryAccommodation and food servicesMiddle half

Revenue-based HHI

492.8

721310
03,500
Same-level median 28468th percentile

National rank

#220

of 679 published

Sector rank

#2

of 11 published

Largest 4 firms

39.3%

Share of industry revenue

Revenue

$2B

Sales, shipments, or revenue

Employer firms

1.3K

1,313

Employment

6.5K

6,458

Five-year concentration trace

Same code, hierarchy, sector, and label in both Census tables.

Trace relative position
2017 HHI236.3
2022 HHI492.8
Published change+256.5
Open history profile
  • GeographyUnited StatesNational firm totals
  • UniverseEmployer firmsFirms with payroll
  • MeasurementRevenue concentrationSales, shipments, or revenue
  • Permitted useScreening onlyNot a legal market definition

Two-vintage industry profile

How this published industry row changed from 2017 to 2022

Inspect six Census measures, publication status, and this row's signed-change position among strict same-level peers.

Strict code + label matchNAICS 721310

Herfindahl-Hirschman Index / HHI points

+256.5 pts+108.5% from 2017

Same-level change rank

#24 of 54395.8th percentile
2017 Economic Census236.3
2022 Economic Census492.8
National rank
#24 of 543
Sector rank
#1 of 10
National coverage
543 of 789
Sector coverage
10 of 15

Comparison evidence

The NAICS code, hierarchy depth, sector, and label are identical in both Census tables.

Five-year deltas are published only for rows whose NAICS code and industry label are identical in the 2017 and 2022 Census tables. This strict match is a conservative screening rule, not an official NAICS concordance or evidence of causation. Revenue changes are nominal and are not adjusted for inflation.

Census formation and sector context

The broader Accommodation formation environment

60 monthly observations for parent sector NAICS 72; none are assigned to this narrower industry.
Parent-sector context
Business Applications
29,951
Jul 2026 monthly count
Application annual change
+21.7%
Same month one year earlier
U.S. application share
5.2%
Share of national applications
High-propensity mix
100.0%
29,951 applications
Projected formations
3,544
Modeled four-quarter source projection
Establishment entry rate
11.0%
2023 annual BDS rate

Monthly source trajectory

Applications and high-propensity applications

Aug 2021 to Jul 2026
Business ApplicationsHigh-Propensity Business Applications
Sixty-month business application trajectory for Accommodation and food servicesBusiness Applications and the high-propensity subset share one count axis. The chapter describes the selected industry's broader parent sector.50K37.5K25K12.5K0Aug 2021Nov 2022Feb 2024May 2025Jul 2026
326,860 applications / latest 12 months326,860 high-propensity / latest 12 months

Source clocks

Four releases, three measurement systems

Business Formation Statistics
2026-07
monthly applications and projected formations
Business Dynamics Statistics
2023
annual employer-establishment flows
Economic Census structure
2022
median across detailed-industry HHI rows
Strict concentration history
2017-2022
same-code and same-label detailed pairs
Broader-sector boundary

Every formation and business-dynamics reading in this chapter describes the broader Accommodation and food services sector (NAICS 72), not Rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, and workers' camps (NAICS 721310) by itself. This atlas joins only exact broad-sector NAICS contracts across three separate Census systems: monthly Business Formation Statistics, annual Business Dynamics Statistics, and Economic Census industry structure. The release clocks, populations, denominators, and measures remain distinct. Positions are descriptive context, not composite competition scores, causal estimates, legal antitrust markets, or evidence that applications, entry, concentration, and competitive effects are interchangeable.

BLS labor and payroll context

The broader Leisure + hospitality labor environment

The parent NAICS 72 bridge supplies context only; no reading is assigned to this narrower industry.
Parent-group context
Job openings
4.7%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Hires
5.1%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Quits
4.2%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Layoffs + discharges
1.5%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
All employees
16.9M
16,931 thousand payroll jobs
Weekly hours
25.4
-0.1 hrs from year earlier
Hourly earnings
$23.63
+3.6% from year earlier

JOLTS worker flows

Openings and quits on native rate scales

Jul 2021 to Jun 2026
Job openings rateQuits rate
Sixty-month JOLTS openings and quits ratesJob openings and quits rates for the mapped Leisure and hospitality source group. The measures keep their published denominators and are not a labor-market power score.12.0%9.0%6.0%3.0%0.0%Jul 2021Oct 2022Jan 2024Apr 2025Jun 2026
-0.9 pp openings / year earlier-0.8 pp quits / year earlier

CES payroll context

Payroll jobs and nominal earnings, indexed

Aug 2021 = 100
Payroll jobsHourly earnings
Sixty-month CES payroll jobs and hourly earnings indexesPayroll jobs and nominal average hourly earnings for the mapped Leisure and hospitality source group, each independently indexed to 100 in the first displayed month. Native levels remain in the readouts.13012111310495Aug 2021Nov 2022Feb 2024May 2025Jul 2026
+0.5% payroll jobs / year earlier+3.6% nominal earnings / year earlier

Declared classification bridge

One profile, two source-owned industry groups

Selected Census parent
NAICS 72
Accommodation and food services
JOLTS group
700000
Leisure and hospitality
CES supersector
70
Leisure and hospitality
Mapped Census sectors
2
71, 72

Independent release clocks

Two monthly systems, no merged series

JOLTS worker flows
2026-06
60 displayed months · latest preliminary
CES payroll context
2026-07
60 displayed months · latest preliminary
Parent-group boundary

Every JOLTS and CES reading in this chapter describes the broader Leisure and hospitality and Leisure and hospitality BLS groups mapped through parent sector NAICS 72, not Rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, and workers' camps (NAICS 721310) by itself. JOLTS industry rates describe national labor demand and worker-flow activity in broad BLS industry groups. They do not measure employer concentration, monopsony power, wages, bargaining power, job quality, local labor-market conditions, worker substitutability, a legal labor market, or the competitive cause of a change. The job openings rate uses employment plus openings as its denominator. Hires, quits, and layoffs and discharges use employment. Rates may be compared across published industry groups within the same measure, but different measures must not be added together or treated as a common flow balance. CES employment, hours, and earnings describe national payroll jobs and establishment averages in broad private-industry groups. They do not measure unique workers, vacancies, employer concentration, monopsony power, bargaining power, job quality, a local or occupational labor market, a legal antitrust market, or the competitive cause of a change. All-employee hourly earnings are current-dollar averages and are not adjusted for inflation. Changes can reflect shifts in industry and worker composition. Employment is reported in thousands of payroll jobs, so multiple jobholders may be counted more than once. Compare industries only within the same published measure; do not add or ratio the three measures into a common score. The two releases remain separate and are not combined into a labor-market, monopsony, competition, welfare, or causal score.

BEA industry output context

The broader Accommodation and food output environment

Parent NAICS 72 supplies context only; no BEA value is assigned to this narrower industry.
Parent-sector context
GDP share
3.2%
2025 current-dollar composition
Real growth
-0.1%
2026-Q1 annualized BEA convention
Growth contribution
0.00 pp
2026-Q1 contribution to real GDP growth
Real quantity index
104.6
2026-Q1 / 2017=100
Current value added
$1.01T
2026-Q1 seasonally adjusted annual rate

Annual composition trajectory

Share of current-dollar GDP

1997-2025
Accommodation and food annual share of current-dollar GDPBEA value-added share from 1997 through 2025. This is an accounting composition measure, not a market share.4.0%3.3%2.5%1.8%1.0%19972004201120182025
2.6%1997+0.6 pplong-run shift3.2%2025
Parent-sector boundary

Every BEA reading in this chapter describes parent sector Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72), not Rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, and workers' camps (NAICS 721310) by itself. No value is allocated to the narrower industry. BEA value added measures an industry's contribution to GDP. It is not sales, gross output, profit, a markup, market share, concentration, a legal antitrust market, or evidence of competitive harm or causation. Current-dollar value-added shares reflect both prices and quantities. Real value added uses chained 2017 dollars and is suitable for growth comparisons, but chained-dollar industry components are not additive. Quarterly levels are seasonally adjusted at annual rates, and quarterly growth and contribution measures retain BEA's published annualized convention. The BEA table contains nested industries, cross-industry aggregates, and addenda. Only the 20 major-industry rows form the composition view; summing those rows with their children, parent aggregates, or addenda would double count activity.

BEA domestic production requirements

Production industries inside the broader Accommodation and food services sector

Parent NAICS 72 supplies a classification directory only; no requirement coefficient is assigned to this narrower profile.
Sector directory only
BEA lines in scope
2
inside NAICS 72
Annual matrices
28
1997-2024
Raw matrix cells
3,976
retained without aggregation
Net requirement
Not constructed
not additive across buyer columns
Own requirement
Not constructed
no sector diagonal constructed

Published production directory

2 BEA industries map to this parent sector

Directory boundary

This chapter is a directory of 2 BEA summary industries classified inside parent sector Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72). No coefficient is averaged, summed across buyer columns, or allocated to Rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, and workers' camps (NAICS 721310). A domestic total-requirements coefficient reports the U.S. output required from the supplier-row industry, directly and indirectly, per dollar of output delivered to final use by the buyer-column industry. It is not observed spending, a contract, a firm supplier link, market share, concentration, a legal antitrust market, competitive harm, or causation. Rows are supplying industries and columns are buyer industries delivering output to final use. Reading down a buyer column traces upstream requirements; reading across a supplier row traces the industries whose final-use output requires that supplier. BEA requirements tables use fixed input structures, constant returns to scale, and no input substitution. Coefficients are average, ex-post industry relationships; domestic import adjustments are estimated and do not identify firm-specific sourcing. Diagonal values include an industry's own direct and indirect requirements. Published negative coefficients are retained as accounting adjustments and must not be ranked as positive supply requirements.

Firm concentration ladder

How much revenue the largest firms hold

Each rung widens the group of largest firms included in the Census concentration ratio.

CR4Four largest firms39.3%
CR8Eight largest firms49.4%
CR20Twenty largest firms60.4%
CR50Fifty largest firms67.6%

Same-level benchmark

Position in the hierarchy

MeasureThis rowMedian
HHI492.8284
CR439.3%30.6%
Revenue$2B$14.5B
Firms1.3K1.2K

HHI distance from median

+208.8

NAICS hierarchy

Move up or down the classification tree

Level 6 of 6

Direct child categories

This is the most detailed six-digit category.

Reciprocal fingerprint network

Position in the national industry graph

A link appears only when both industries rank one another among their three nearest complete Census fingerprints across all six published measures.

2022 · all-six lens · mutual top 3
Mutual degree
0
reciprocal 2022 links
Component reach
1
component-120
Link mix
0 same / 0 cross
same-sector / cross-sector
Graph coverage
679/899
673 reciprocal edges
2022 ego networkLines are reciprocal top-three links721310
721310
Selected industrySame sectorCross-sector

Current reciprocal ledger

No mutual top-three link

This complete row is isolated under the mutual top-three threshold. It remains a graph member with degree zero and a one-node component.

Fixed-cohort network change

2017 to 2022 reciprocal link turnover

Both graphs use the same 543 complete strict-match industries. The fixed-cohort 2022 degree can differ from the larger current snapshot above.

TransitionIsolated in 20222022 isolated
Mutual degree1 → 0net -1
Component26 → 1net -25 nodes
Neighbor retention0.0%0 of 1 retained
Turnover10 added / 1 removed
Retained0

No retained reciprocal neighbors.

Added0

No added reciprocal neighbors.

Removed1

Turnover classes describe reciprocal graph states, not economic entry, exit, stability, or structural transformation. Connected and isolated refer only to the selected top-three fingerprint graph. Every class is derived from retained, added, and removed links under the fixed-cohort network-change contract.

Nearest structural neighbors

Comparable fingerprints across the economy

Smallest mean national-percentile gaps across HHI, CR4, CR8, revenue, employment, and employer firms, using the same published dimensions as this row.

Evidence access

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Source citation

U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, EC2200SIZECONCEN: Selected Sectors - Concentration of Largest Firms for the United States, released April 2025.

Industry screen, not market conclusion

A NAICS industry is a statistical classification, not a legally defined antitrust market. Use these national revenue concentration measures to screen where deeper product and geographic market analysis may be warranted, not to infer market power or liability.

Market definition method
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