NAICS 238910 · Construction
Site Preparation Contractors: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 39,686 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in site preparation activities, such as excavating and grading, demolition of buildings and other structures, and septic system installation. Earthmoving and land clearing for all types of sites (e.g., building, nonbuilding, mining) is included in this industry. Establishments primarily engaged in construction equipment rental with operator (except cranes) are also included.
Businesses classified here include
- Aerial or picker truck, construction, rental with operator
- Backfilling, construction
- Backhoe rental with operator
- Blast hole drilling (except mining)
- Blasting, building demolition
- Blasting, construction site
- Boring, for building construction
- Building demolition
- Bulldozer rental with operator
- Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction
- Cesspool construction
- Concrete breaking and cutting for demolition
- Construction equipment (except crane) rental with operator
- Core drilling and test boring for construction
- Crawler tractor rental with operator
- Culvert or bridge removal
- Cutting new rights of way
- Demolition contractor
- Demolition, building and structure
- Dewatering contractors
- Digging foundations
- Dirt moving for construction
- Dismantling engineering structures (e.g., oil storage tank)
- Drainage system (e.g., cesspool, septic tank) installation
- Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors
- Drilled shaft (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction
- Dry well construction
- Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator
- Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries)
- Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 238910), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for site preparation contractors
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for site preparation contractors
- Texas 2,640 locations
- California 2,621 locations
- Florida 1,826 locations
- Pennsylvania 1,792 locations
- New York 1,772 locations
- North Carolina 1,510 locations
- Washington 1,465 locations
- Ohio 1,408 locations
- Massachusetts 1,189 locations
- Michigan 1,147 locations
All 51 states
- Alabama (580)
- Alaska (217)
- Arizona (606)
- Arkansas (461)
- California (2,621)
- Colorado (999)
- Connecticut (511)
- Delaware (114)
- District of Columbia (13)
- Florida (1,826)
- Georgia (1,118)
- Hawaii (115)
- Idaho (603)
- Illinois (1,100)
- Indiana (1,017)
- Iowa (704)
- Kansas (443)
- Kentucky (517)
- Louisiana (479)
- Maine (601)
- Maryland (538)
- Massachusetts (1,189)
- Michigan (1,147)
- Minnesota (955)
- Mississippi (373)
- Missouri (873)
- Montana (495)
- Nebraska (352)
- Nevada (268)
- New Hampshire (418)
- New Jersey (749)
- New Mexico (217)
- New York (1,772)
- North Carolina (1,510)
- North Dakota (232)
- Ohio (1,408)
- Oklahoma (473)
- Oregon (831)
- Pennsylvania (1,792)
- Rhode Island (185)
- South Carolina (640)
- South Dakota (235)
- Tennessee (865)
- Texas (2,640)
- Utah (657)
- Vermont (308)
- Virginia (887)
- Washington (1,465)
- West Virginia (383)
- Wisconsin (909)
- Wyoming (275)