Home-service contractors in Birmingham, AL

Other home service is Birmingham's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as HVAC, the next largest.

In order, Birmingham's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Birmingham. The smallest of them here is pool.

Birmingham's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Birmingham clears the record floor a trade page has to meet, so each has a page of its own. That is a statement about how thick this metro's thinnest trade is.

Per resident, Birmingham sits close to the Alabama rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Plumbing takes a larger share of Birmingham than of Alabama, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Pool is thinner in Birmingham than across Alabama, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are Birmingham's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

No Birmingham trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Birmingham, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Birmingham. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Birmingham, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Birmingham's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,780 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 180 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other. HVAC, plumbing and roofing follow it.

Birmingham's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in other home service.

Within Birmingham, pool and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Birmingham's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Flooring holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Other home service is the Birmingham trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Birmingham records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Birmingham that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Bessemer, Vestavia Hills and Trussville. Each of them carries one trade.

Birmingham, AL sits inside Alabama alone, so the labour market this page counts and the licensing regime that governs it are the same geography.

Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Birmingham on this site are Salt Lake City-Murray above it and Fresno below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Birmingham's neighbours are Beaumont-Port Arthur and Albuquerque. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.