Home-service contractors in Merced, CA

Other home service is Merced'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 landscaping, the next largest.

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

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

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

One Merced trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.

Per resident, Merced carries far fewer home-service records than California as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Against California's own mix, Merced is heaviest in roofing: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Even Merced's thinnest trade against California, other home service, sits close to the state share.

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

Of the Merced trades with a measured licensed share, pool links to an active state licence most often and HVAC 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 Merced 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 Merced 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, roofing and plumbing in Merced. Of those, electrical pays the most and plumbing the least.

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

HVAC carries Merced's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 190 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 28 HVAC 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. Electrical, plumbing and roofing follow it.

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

Within Merced, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and other home service the least.

No Merced record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here account for the whole metro.

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

More Merced records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.

Inside this metro area, the city of Merced itself differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Merced, 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 Merced on this site are Longview above it and Utica-Rome below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Merced's neighbours are Visalia and Bakersfield-Delano. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.