Emergency and Other Relief Services
Description
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counseling to victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts (e.g., wars).
Hierarchy
| Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 62 | Health Care and Social Assistance 2-digit sector | The Sector as a Whole The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals. The sector includes both health care and social assistance because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries of these two activities. The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance. Establishments in this sector deliver services by trained professionals. All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry. Excluded from this sector are yoga and aerobics instruction in Subsector 611, Educational Services, physical fitness facilities in Subsector 713, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries, and personal fitness training services and non-medical diet and weight reducing centers in Subsector 812, Personal and Laundry Services. Although these can be viewed as health services, these services are not typically delivered by health practitioners. |
| 624 | Social Assistance 3-digit subsector | Industries in the Social Assistance subsector provide a wide variety of social assistance services directly to their clients. These services do not include residential or accommodation services, except on a short-stay basis. |
| 6242 | Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services 4-digit industry group | This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) collecting, preparing, and delivering food for the needy; (2) providing short-term emergency shelter, temporary residential shelter, transitional housing, volunteer construction or repair of low-cost housing, and/or repair of homes for individuals or families in need; or (3) providing food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counseling to victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts (e.g., wars). |
| 62423 | Emergency and Other Relief Services 5-digit NAICS industry | See industry description for 624230. |
| 624230 | Emergency and Other Relief Services 6-digit U.S. detail | This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counseling to victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts (e.g., wars). |
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Index Items
Disaster relief services
Emergency relief services
Emergency shelters for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts
Immigrant resettlement services
Refugee settlement services
Relief services, disaster
Relief services, emergency
Shelters for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts, emergency
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External Resources
Census.gov NAICS Detail
Official US Census Bureau definition and scope for NAICS 624230.
National Alliance for Care Services
The leading trade association for the emergency and other relief services industry.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Relief Services
Federal guidance and resources on how government agencies operate relief and emergency food services.
Nonprofit Source - Community Aid Organizations
A searchable directory listing thousands of registered nonprofit organizations providing relief and emergency assistance.
