922190 Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

Official definition

This industry comprises government establishments primarily engaged in public order and safety (except courts, police protection, legal counsel and prosecution, correctional institutions, parole offices, probation offices, pardon boards, and fire protection). These establishments include the general administration of public order and safety programs. Government establishments responsible for the collection of statistics on public safety are included in this industry.

Examples Census gives

• Consumer product safety commissions, public administration
• Emergency planning and management offices, government
• Disaster preparedness and management offices, government
• Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, 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:

• Government establishments primarily engaged in serving as civilian courts of law (except American Indian and Alaska Native tribal courts) are classified in Industry 922110, Courts.
• Establishments primarily engaged in operating American Indian or Alaska Native tribal courts are classified in Industry 921150, American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Governments.
• Government establishments primarily engaged in criminal and civil law enforcement, police, traffic safety, and similar activities related to the enforcement of law are classified in Industry 922120, Police Protection.
• Government establishments primarily engaged in providing legal counsel to or prosecution services for their governments are classified in Industry 922130, Legal Counsel and Prosecution.
• Government establishments primarily engaged in the confinement, correction, and rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders sentenced by a court are classified in Industry 922140, Correctional Institutions.
• Government establishments primarily engaged in judicially administering probation offices, parole offices and boards, and pardon boards are classified in Industry 922150, Parole Offices and Probation Offices.
• Government establishments primarily engaged in firefighting and other related fire protection activities are classified in Industry 922160, Fire Protection.

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

Activities listed under 922190

The Census index assigns these 7 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Consumer product safety commissions
• Criminal justice statistics centers, government
• Disaster preparedness and management offices, government
• Emergency planning and management offices, government
• Law enforcement statistics centers, government
• Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government
• Public safety statistics centers, government

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: 8411, 8422, 8423), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 84110General public administration activitiesUK SIC
• 84220Defence activitiesUK SIC
• 84230Justice and judicial activitiesUK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

• 922110Courts
• 922120Police Protection
• 922130Legal Counsel and Prosecution
• 922140Correctional Institutions
• 922150Parole Offices and Probation Offices
• 922160Fire Protection