Home-service contractors in District of Columbia

District of Columbia'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 District of Columbia sits in that one trade, with cleaning the next largest. A concentrated mix like this usually says more about how the source data categorises a business than about how District of Columbia homeowners spend.

In order, District of Columbia's four largest trades are other home service, cleaning, pest control 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 District of Columbia, 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 District of Columbia is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

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

Measured against the national mix, District of Columbia is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of District of Columbia'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.

At the other end, landscaping is far thinner in District of Columbia than it is nationally. A trade this far under the national share is usually one the state's businesses file under a different category rather than one that is genuinely absent.

Per resident, District of Columbia carries far fewer home-service records than the country does, among the ten thinnest of the fifty-one this site counts. Where a state sits this far under the national rate, contractors registered in neighbouring states often do the work and will not appear on any District of Columbia page, because their address is somewhere else.

By raw record count District of Columbia is one of the smaller states in this corpus. Small totals move proportionally more between releases, so a change in a District of Columbia row is weaker evidence of a change on the ground than the same change in a large state.

District of Columbia'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.

Far fewer of District of Columbia's records are missing a street address than the national average, which is the mark of a state whose home-service businesses mostly work from a fixed premises.

Almost none of District of Columbia'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. Flooring holds what little of the review bucket District of Columbia 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 District of Columbia and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and painting has the fewest.

Cleaning, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, painting, plumbing, pool and roofing are the District of Columbia trades in which every record is already classified as independent, franchise brand or corporate owned, with none left in review. The other rows on this page carry at least one name the chain rule has not finished with.

Over the last twelve months more District of Columbia records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; cleaning added the largest share of new records and cleaning 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 District of Columbia rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other District of Columbia row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

District of Columbia owns one metro fact page, for Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, and every trade hub beneath it. A metro is listed under the state its name leads with, so a metro area that crosses into District of Columbia but is named for its neighbour appears on that neighbour's page instead.

Ordered by records per resident, District of Columbia sits between West Virginia above it and Nebraska 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, District of Columbia is the smallest of the fifty-one, just under Alaska.

Of the District of Columbia records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade in District of Columbia is flooring.

Within District of Columbia, electrical is the most independently held trade and flooring the least. That gap is the reason the statewide independent share is a summary rather than a description: a homeowner hiring in flooring meets a different market from one hiring in electrical.

Plumbing is the District of Columbia trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pest control the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on a plumbing page in District of Columbia is thinner in addresses than a pest control one and no less real for it.

District of Columbia is outside the verified-licence layer, so no District of Columbia row above carries a licensed share and no District of Columbia 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, DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection is where a District of Columbia licence is checked and DC Office of the Attorney General, Consumer Protection is where a District of Columbia homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a District of Columbia contractor and resolves none.

Taking the largest row on its own: other home service is a larger part of District of Columbia than it is of the country, so District of Columbia's table leans toward that trade rather than merely leading with it.