Food and agriculture / United States / regional cattle procurement markets
Beef meatpackingUse appears through report context
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Public source dossierPublic datasetU.S. Census Bureau
2022 Economic Census Concentration of Largest Firms
Economy-wide national firm concentration statistics by 2022 NAICS industry including revenue-based HHI and largest-firm concentration ratios.
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2/7 direct domains · 1,576 normalized indicators · 1 market · 2022-2026Encoded row volume · log scaleExact counts shown
Public source2022 Economic Census Concentration of Largest FirmsU.S. Census Bureau / 3 active routes / 2022-2026
- Record identitycensus-ecnsize-concentration-2022U.S. Census Bureau, 2025
- Source classPublic datasetAccessed Jul 17, 2026
- Encoded scope3 active routes1,869 direct / 1,576 indicator rows
- Permitted inferenceTrace + reproduceNo automatic endorsement or comparability
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Definitions0Not encodedObservations0Not encodedParticipants0Not encodedPolicy records0Not encodedReports3public reportsIndustries1,866NAICS rowsGeographies0Not encodedIndicators1,576normalized indicator observations / normalized route
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This source currently contributes through policy chronology, report citation, or industry evidence rather than market definitions, observations, or participant shares.
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Published report
Jul 20, 2026
Business Dynamism Across U.S. Sectors, 1978-2023
Read reportA source-backed research brief on 46 years of establishment and job flows, the different entry paths of 19 broad sectors, and a guarded cross-section linking 2023 entry to 2022 detailed-industry structure.
U.S. Census Bureau 2023 Business Dynamics Statistics national and broad-sector annual tables for 1978-2023, paired only in a separately labeled cross-section with 2022 Economic Census medians of published six-digit industry HHI.
Published report
Jul 19, 2026
Beef Meatpacking Buyer Power
Read reportA source-backed briefing on national beef-packer buyer concentration, the related Census slaughtering-industry screen, and the market boundaries neither metric can establish.
USDA ERS historical national CR4 for steer and heifer purchases, paired with separately bounded 2017 and 2022 Economic Census revenue concentration rows for NAICS 311611.
Published report
Jul 19, 2026
The U.S. Competition Landscape
Read reportA national briefing that aligns defined-market signals, industry structure, state and local geographic concentration screens, merger activity, and enforcement records without collapsing their different scopes.
2022 and 2017 U.S. Economic Census industry concentration tables, USDA ERS historical meatpacking CR4, KFF 2024 state individual-market HHI, FDIC 2025 statewide and county Summary of Deposits screens, the FY2025 FTC/DOJ HSR report, and source-backed market and enforcement records.
Industry observatory
NAICS concentration evidence
- Vintage
- 2022
- All rows
- 1,866
- Detailed industries
- 899
- Published HHI
- 679
- Strict history matches
- 1,640
| NAICS | Detailed industry | HHI | CR4 | Firms | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 483112 | Deep sea passenger transportation | 3,436.1 | 97.7% | 72 | Open |
| 336414 | Guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing | 3,377.1 | 96.7% | 18 | Open |
| 517112 | Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite) | 3,074.2 | 96.6% | 1,184 | Open |
| 521110 | Monetary authorities - central bank | 3,074 | 76.6% | 12 | Open |
| 532111 | Passenger car rental | 3,029.2 | 89.6% | 2,190 | Open |
| 561613 | Armored car services | 2,721 | 89.9% | 108 | Open |
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.
Citation custody
The record behind the rows
U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, EC2200SIZECONCEN: Selected Sectors - Concentration of Largest Firms for the United States, released April 2025.
Economy-wide national firm concentration statistics by 2022 NAICS industry including revenue-based HHI and largest-firm concentration ratios.
Canonical source citation
U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, EC2200SIZECONCEN: Selected Sectors - Concentration of Largest Firms for the United States, released April 2025. Available at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200SIZECONCEN.zip. Accessed Jul 17, 2026. Antitrust Radar source record census-ecnsize-concentration-2022: https://antitrustradar.org/sources/census-ecnsize-concentration-2022
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- U.S. Census Bureau
- Access date
- Jul 17, 2026
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- Public federal government dataset
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Source-scoped data packet
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Definitions
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Observations
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Participants
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Official records
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Named edges
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0
Event windows
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1,576
Indicator observations
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3
Reports
Published observatory work citing this source
1,866
Industry rows
2022 NAICS concentration screening rows
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