Rooming and boarding houses — NAICS 721310 industry report

01

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–411033%

5–96018%

10–195918%

20–496419%

50–99185%

100–199113%

200–49993%

500+10%

Of 332 Canadian establishments with employees, 51% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario11033%

Alberta6520%

British Columbia6018%

Quebec4112%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Accommodation and Food Services, US · opened 2020

85.5%

1 year

72.1%

3 years

59.3%

5 years

41.6%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

02

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 721, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 721 Accommodation services

A real-estate asset with an operating business inside it. Independents pay for distribution through online agencies; campgrounds and RV parks are the lower-capital, land-rich variant.

Who sets the price: Nightly rates set against local competition and online travel agencies' commission.
The software it runs on: Property management, channel management and revenue management.

03

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 7213 Rooming and boarding houses covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 7213

Rooming & Co-Living HousesStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost + regulatory drag

Rooming houses are the cheapest form of housing to supply and the hardest to permit: most municipalities restrict them through zoning, licensing and parking minimums, and neighbourhood opposition is reliable. Operating is management-intensive per dollar of rent. Note the connection to the affordable-housing study at 531112 — this is the format that would close the gap that study describes, and the same municipal process blocks both.

NAICS 72134 vendors named9 sourced figuresOpen →

04

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Property management, channel management and revenue management.

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

05

Who works here

The occupations employed in Accommodation and food services, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Managers in food service and accommodation One industry 87.6%

Occupations in food and beverage service One industry 84.1%

Food support occupations One industry 75.3%

Specialized occupations in services Mostly one sector 68.6%

Cooks, butchers and bakers Mostly one sector 60.2%

Service supervisors Mostly one sector 49.3%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 10.2%

Cashiers and other sales support occupations One industry 8.6%

Support occupations in accommodation, travel, tourism and amusement services Mostly one sector 7.3%

Taxi, personal service and delivery service drivers Mostly one sector 5.2%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 4.3%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 1.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 1.5%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 1.4%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 1.3%

Accounting, insurance and related business administrative occupations Across the economy 1.2%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 1.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 1.2%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 1%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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