Business Data & Benchmarks · United States
Rooming and Boarding House Revenue Benchmark
Rooming and boarding houses renting by the week or month, a Census category that also covers off-campus dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses and workers' camps.
Average Rooming and Boarding House Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census
The 2022 Economic Census counts every rooming or boarding house with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing one by the other gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment below.
≈$1,352,000 /year
Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment
1,456
Employer establishments in the United States, 2022
as published $2 billion
Combined annual gross revenue of employer establishments, 2022
How this is calculated: about $2 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 1,456 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $1,352,000 per employer establishment. This Census category is broader than the name suggests: off-campus dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses and workers' camps are all counted here.
Scope: Rooming and Boarding Houses, Dormitories, and Workers' Camps, NAICS 721310. Nothing outside that code is counted on this page.
Source US Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, Summary Statistics (ECNBASIC): ESTAB, RCPTOT and PAYANN by NAICS · Vintage 2022 Economic Census · Calculation BusinessNES · Accessed July 2026
Payroll as a Share of Revenue Official data
Payroll divided by receipts, both as published for the same year.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Annual payroll share of receipts, United States | ≈12% |
Payroll share of receipts, Rooming and Boarding Houses, Dormitories, and Workers' Camps, United States, 2022 Economic Census.
Approximately 12.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll, which is low because the building, not staffing, is what residents pay for.
Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, and it excludes the property itself, its financing and its upkeep.
Business Scale and Ownership Structure Official data
How large the average establishment is, and whether the population is independent operators or multi-site companies.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Paid employees per employer establishment | 4.4 |
| Employer establishments per firm | 1.11 |
Scale and ownership, Rooming and Boarding Houses, Dormitories, and Workers' Camps, United States, 2022 Economic Census.
The average establishment employed about 4.4 people, and the industry counted 1.1 employer establishments per firm. This is a small published population, so the average rests on few businesses.
These are arithmetic industry averages. They state the size of the average establishment and show that multi-establishment ownership exists. They do not show the distribution of business sizes and they do not measure market concentration.
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Data Source Notice
This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Figures above are from the 2022 Economic Census reference year, released by the Census Bureau in 2024 and 2025; markets have moved since.
Sources and Methodology
Revenue, establishment counts, payroll, employment and firm counts on this page come from the 2022 Economic Census, Summary Statistics, published by the US Census Bureau. Averages and shares are BusinessNES calculations from those published totals, and each one names the two figures it divides.
The Census counts employer establishments, meaning each staffed property rather than each owner or landlord.