Home-service contractors in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Other home service is Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim'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 plumbing, the next largest.

In order, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's four largest trades are other home service, plumbing, flooring and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. The smallest of them here is pool.

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim sits close to the California rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Plumbing takes a larger share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim than of California, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Landscaping is thinner in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim than across California, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, plumbing and flooring are Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

Of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim trades with a measured licensed share, electrical links to an active state licence most often and flooring least often. That spread measures how well two files join here, not whether either row's businesses hold a licence.

More trade-covering licences lapsed in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

Almost every Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim record sits inside the state whose licence file its share is computed from, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.

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

Electrical carries Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 20,610 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 1,992 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. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pest control holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Other home service is the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim trade whose records most often carry no street address, and electrical the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Roofing added the largest share of new records and electrical lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Glendale, Irvine, Santa Ana, Santa Clarita and Orange, and 57 more. Glendale carries the most trades of them.

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA sits inside California 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim on this site are New York-Newark-Jersey City above it and Chicago-Naperville-Elgin below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's neighbours are Syracuse and Richmond. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.