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

The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area has 12,216 other home service contractors, or 19.38 per 10,000 residents.

What other home service work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national other home service page. District of Columbia publishes no business-level licence source for other home service, so this page shows no licensed share; the District of Columbia page says what it does publish.

The facts

Other home service contractors in this metro
12,216
Per 10,000 residents
19.38 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
187
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
52
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in District of Columbia. No other home service record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
11,711 independent, 120 franchise brand, 292 corporate owned, 93 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.79% of source records merged as duplicates, 3.09% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,304,975, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about other home service in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria

By record count, other home service is the largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, ahead of landscaping. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria.

Per resident, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria carries far more other home service records than District of Columbia as a whole.

The independent share of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's other home service records is close to the District of Columbia figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far more of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's other home service records carry no street address than across District of Columbia. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

District of Columbia publishes no business-level licence source for other home service that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Washington-Arlington-Alexandria is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no other home service record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for other home service in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to other home service cleanly enough to print, so Washington-Arlington-Alexandria carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria other home service records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's other home service records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More other home service records first appeared in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

The cities inside Washington-Arlington-Alexandria that differ from the wider metro enough on other home service to carry pages of their own are Washington, Arlington, Alexandria and Rockville, and 28 more.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria is the only District of Columbia metro area this site publishes a other home service page for, so there is no second District of Columbia hub of this trade to rank it against.

Ordered by other home service records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a other home service page for, the hubs either side of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria are Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard above it and Evansville below it.

Other home service contractors, A to Z

11,933 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 39 further pages linked below, not withheld. The city pages below cover the same metro in smaller pieces.

Other home service by city

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