Home-service contractors in Arizona

Arizona's largest trade by record count is other home service, and it is dominant rather than merely first: more than a quarter of every home-service record this site holds for Arizona sits in that one trade, with HVAC the next largest. A concentrated mix like this usually says more about how the source data categorises a business than about how Arizona homeowners spend.

In order, Arizona's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and flooring. Other home service alone account for half of every record on this page, which is a narrow base for a statewide figure.

Every one of the eleven trades this site counts carries at least one record in Arizona, which is not true of every state. The smallest of them here is pool, and a small row is a small row: it is not evidence that Arizona is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

At the other end of the same ordering, Arizona's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of Arizona, so most of their metro hub pages clear this site's publish floor and publish.

Measured against the national mix, Arizona is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of Arizona's records than it takes of the country's. Climate, housing stock and how a state's own businesses describe themselves all feed that, and this page separates none of them.

Roofing is thinner in Arizona than it is nationally, the mirror of the lean above. Read it as a difference in how businesses here are categorised before reading it as a difference in what they do.

Per resident, Arizona sits close to the national rate for home-service records, in the middle of the fifty-one this site counts. Being average is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up, and it means the counts on this page can be read as typical.

By raw record count Arizona sits in the middle third of the states in this corpus, which is the size at which a single large metro can move a trade row on its own.

Arizona's split between independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records is close to the national one, so the chain mix on this page is typical rather than distinctive.

Address completeness in Arizona is close to the national average, so the lists linked from this page are neither unusually well nor unusually poorly addressed.

Almost none of Arizona's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts on this page describe nearly the whole state rather than most of it. Pool holds what little of the review bucket Arizona has.

Read per resident rather than by count, the ordering does not change at the top: other home service is both the largest trade in Arizona and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Over the last twelve months more Arizona records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; cleaning added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags. A record appears when the source learns about a business, which is not the same event as a business opening.

Cleaning, Flooring, Landscaping, Other home service, Painting, Pest control and Pool carry no Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation in the extract loaded here, so those Arizona rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Arizona row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages Arizona owns are Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, Tucson and Prescott Valley-Prescott. Each carries the same counts for one trade in one metro area, and a metro that crosses a state line is listed under the state its name leads with, not under every state it touches.

Ordered by records per resident, Arizona sits between South Dakota above it and California below it. Those two are the states this page's per-resident rate is closest to, and they are named because a rank on its own says less than the company it keeps.

Ordered by total records rather than by rate, Arizona's neighbours are Colorado and Indiana. A state can sit high on one of these two orderings and low on the other, and reading both is the point of naming them.

Of the Arizona records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade in Arizona is flooring.

Within Arizona, landscaping is the most independently held trade and pest control the least. That gap is the reason the statewide independent share is a summary rather than a description: a homeowner hiring in pest control meets a different market from one hiring in landscaping.

Other home service is the Arizona trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on an other home service page in Arizona is thinner in addresses than an HVAC one and no less real for it.

Arizona is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Arizona row above carries a licensed share and no Arizona profile carries a licence fact. The counts are still measured; what is absent is the join between them and a licence file, which is why the licensed-share row reads as not published rather than as zero.

Until that changes, Arizona Registrar of Contractors is where an Arizona licence is checked and Arizona Attorney General, Consumer Protection is where an Arizona homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about an Arizona contractor and resolves none.

Taking the largest row on its own: other home service is about as large a part of Arizona as it is of the country, so Arizona leads with that trade for the same reason the country does.