Home-service contractors in Rockford, IL

Other home service is Rockford'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, Rockford's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Rockford. The smallest of them here is pool.

Rockford's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Rockford 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, Rockford sits close to the Illinois rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Roofing takes a larger share of Rockford than of Illinois, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Plumbing is thinner in Rockford than across Illinois, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Rockford's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

No Rockford 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 Rockford, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Rockford. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Rockford, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Plumbing carries Rockford's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 440 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 56 plumbing 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. Electrical, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Rockford's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in flooring and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.

Within Rockford, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Rockford'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.

Flooring is the Rockford trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Rockford records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.

Inside this metro area, the city of Rockford itself differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Rockford, IL sits inside Illinois 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 Rockford on this site are Clarksville above it and Green Bay below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Rockford's neighbours are Lexington-Fayette and St. Louis. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.