814110 Private Households

Official definition

This industry comprises private households primarily engaged in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of the household. These private households may employ individuals, such as cooks, maids, nannies, butlers, non-medical personal care aides, and outside workers, such as gardeners, caretakers, and other maintenance workers.

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:

• Providing non-medical personal care services for the elderly or persons with disabilities (except private households) are classified in Industry 624120, Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities.
• Providing care and early learning opportunities for infants and children (except private households) are classified in Industry 624410, Child Care Services.

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

Activities listed under 814110

The Census index assigns these 4 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Households, private, employing (e.g., cooks, maids, chauffeurs, gardeners)
• Households, private, employing domestic personnel
• Private households employing domestic personnel
• Private households with employees

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: 9700), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 97000Activities of households as employers of domestic personnelUK SIC

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