Home-service contractors in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Other home service is San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont'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, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. The smallest of them here is pool.

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont sits close to the California rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Painting takes a larger share of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont than of California, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Pool is thinner in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont than across California, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and flooring are San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

Of the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont trades with a measured licensed share, painting 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 9,060 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 739 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, landscaping and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Cleaning is the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Hayward, Concord, Fremont, Berkeley and Novato, and 20 more. Each of them carries one trade.

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont on this site are Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario above it and Detroit-Warren-Dearborn below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's neighbours are Rochester and Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.