456199 All Other Health and Personal Care Retailers

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing specialized lines of health and personal care merchandise (except drugs, medicines, cosmetics, beauty supplies, perfumes, optical goods, and food supplement products).

Examples Census gives

• Convalescent supply retailers
• Sick room supply retailers
• Hearing aid retailers
• Wheelchair retailers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Retailing vitamins, nutrition supplements, and body enhancing supplements are classified in U.S. Industry 456191, Food (Health) Supplement Retailers.
• Retailing prescription and nonprescription drugs and medicines are classified in Industry 456110, Pharmacies and Drug Retailers.
• Retailing cosmetics, beauty supplies, and perfumes are classified in Industry 456120, Cosmetics, Beauty Supplies, and Perfume Retailers.
• Retailing eyeglasses and contact lenses (except offices of optometrists and ophthalmologists) are classified in Industry 456130, Optical Goods Retailers.
• The independent private or group practice of optometry or ophthalmology, with or without the sale of glasses and contact lenses are classified in Subsector 621, Ambulatory Health Care Services.
• The independent private or group practice of orthotics or prosthetics, with or without the sale of orthopedic and prosthetic appliances are classified in U.S. Industry 621399, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners.
• The independent private or group practice of audiology, with or without the sale of hearing aid devices are classified in Industry 621340, Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists.
• Selling hearing aid devices made on the premises are classified in U.S. Industry 334510, Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing.
• Retailing orthopedic shoes are classified in Industry 458210, Shoe Retailers.
• Selling orthopedic and prosthetic appliances made on the premises are classified in U.S. Industry 339113, Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing.
• Renting home health furniture and equipment are classified in U.S. Industry 532283, Home Health Equipment Rental.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 456199

The Census index assigns these 8 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Convalescent supply stores
• Hearing aid stores (except offices of audiologists)
• Home health equipment stores
• Medical equipment and supplies stores
• Personal mobility scooter dealers
• Prosthetic stores (except offices of prosthetists)
• Sick room supply stores
• Wheelchair stores

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 456199

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 456199, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $9.5 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 4772, 4791, 4781, 4782, 4789, 4799), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 47721Retail sale of footwear in specialised storesUK SIC
• 47722Retail sale of leather goods in specialised storesUK SIC
• 47810Retail sale via stalls and markets of food, beverages and tobacco productsUK SIC
• 47820Retail sale via stalls and markets of textiles, clothing and footwearUK SIC
• 47890Retail sale via stalls and markets of other goodsUK SIC
• 47910Retail sale via mail order houses or via InternetUK SIC
• 47990Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or marketsUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 456191Food (Health) Supplement Retailers