521110 Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing central banking functions, such as issuing currency, managing the Nation's money supply and international reserves, holding deposits that represent the reserves of other banks and other central banks, and acting as a fiscal agent for the central government.

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:

• Establishments of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are classified in Industry 921130, Public Finance Activities.

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

Activities listed under 521110

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

• Banking, central
• Banks, Federal Reserve
• Branches, Federal Reserve Bank
• Central bank, monetary authorities
• Check clearing activities of the central bank
• Federal Reserve Banks or Branches
• Financial transactions processing of the central bank
• Monetary authorities, central bank

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

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: 6411), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 64110Central bankingUK SIC

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