623990 Other Residential Care Facilities

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing residential care (except residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential mental health and substance abuse facilities, continuing care retirement communities, and assisted living facilities for the elderly). These establishments also provide supervision and personal care services.

Examples Census gives

• Boot or disciplinary camps (except correctional) for delinquent youth
• Group homes for the hearing or visually impaired
• Child group foster homes
• Delinquent youth halfway group homes
• Halfway group homes for delinquents or ex-offenders
• Homes for unwed mothers
• Group homes for the disabled without nursing care
• Orphanages

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:

• Residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities are classified in Industry 623210, Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities.
• Continuing care retirement communities are classified in U.S. Industry 623311, Continuing Care Retirement Communities.
• Residential mental health and substance abuse facilities are classified in Industry 623220, Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities.
• Assisted living facilities for the elderly without nursing care are classified in U.S. Industry 623312, Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly.
• Establishments primarily engaged in providing inpatient nursing and rehabilitative services are classified in Industry 623110, Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities).
• Establishments primarily engaged in providing temporary shelter are classified in U.S. Industry 624221, Temporary Shelters.
• Privately operated correctional facilities are classified in Industry 561210, Facilities Support Services.
• Government operated correctional facilities and camps are classified in Industry 922140, Correctional Institutions.

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

Activities listed under 623990

The Census index assigns these 15 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Boot camps for delinquent youth
• Boys' and girls' residential facilities (e.g., homes, ranches, villages)
• Camps, boot or disciplinary (except correctional), for delinquent youth
• Child group foster homes
• Children's villages
• Delinquent youth halfway group homes
• Disciplinary camps for delinquent youth
• Group foster homes for children
• Group homes for the hearing impaired
• Group homes for the visually impaired
• Halfway group homes for delinquents and ex-offenders
• Homes for children with health care incidental
• Homes for unwed mothers
• Juvenile halfway group homes
• Orphanages

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 623990

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 623990, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $16 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: 8790), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 87900Other residential care activities n.e.c.UK SIC

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