Home-service contractors in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Other home service is Washington-Arlington-Alexandria'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, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, cleaning and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. The smallest of them here is pool.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 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, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria carries far more home-service records than District of Columbia as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Against District of Columbia's own mix, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

At the other end, pest control is far thinner in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria than across District of Columbia, by the widest margin of any trade in the table.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and cleaning are Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

No Washington-Arlington-Alexandria trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 16,580 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 747 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is pest control.

Within Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria'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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Washington-Arlington-Alexandria that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Washington, Arlington, Alexandria, Rockville and Gaithersburg, and 27 more. Washington carries the most trades of them.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV crosses a state line, so this metro area sits in more than one licensing regime at once. Every count above is the whole metro; every licence figure beneath it is computed inside one state.

Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria on this site are Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell above it and Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's neighbours are Savannah and Amarillo. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.