Home-service contractors in Delaware

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

In order, Delaware's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and cleaning. 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 Delaware, 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 Delaware is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

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

No trade is strongly over-represented in Delaware. Landscaping leans furthest above the national mix and even that lean is slight, so Delaware looks like the country in miniature on this measure.

Plumbing is thinner in Delaware than it is nationally, the mirror of the lean above. Read it as a difference in how businesses here are categorised before reading it as a difference in what they do.

Per resident, Delaware sits close to the national rate for home-service records, in the middle of the fifty-one this site counts. Being average is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up, and it means the counts on this page can be read as typical.

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

Delaware'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 Delaware'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 Delaware'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. Pest control holds what little of the review bucket Delaware 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 Delaware and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Landscaping, painting and pool are the Delaware 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 Delaware records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; pest control added the largest share of new records and pest control 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 Delaware rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Delaware row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

No metropolitan area in the top two hundred by population is named for Delaware first, so this state owns no metro fact page of its own. Delaware records still publish: they sit on the profile pages the trade table's counts are built from, and on the hub pages of whichever metro's name leads with a neighbouring state.

Ordered by records per resident, Delaware sits between Washington above it and Maryland 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, Delaware's neighbours are Rhode Island and Hawaii. A state can sit high on one of these two orderings and low on the other, and reading both is the point of naming them.

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

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

Other home service is the Delaware trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on an other home service page in Delaware is thinner in addresses than a roofing one and no less real for it.

Delaware is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Delaware row above carries a licensed share and no Delaware 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, Delaware Division of Professional Regulation is where a Delaware licence is checked and Delaware Attorney General, Consumer Protection Unit is where a Delaware homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Delaware contractor and resolves none.

Taking the largest row on its own: other home service is about as large a part of Delaware as it is of the country, so Delaware leads with that trade for the same reason the country does.