Home-service contractors in Kentucky

Kentucky'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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky homeowners spend.

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

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

Electrical takes a larger share of Kentucky's records than it takes nationally, which is the clearest way Kentucky's trade mix departs from the country's. The gap is real but ordinary and would not survive being called a trend.

Pool is thinner in Kentucky 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, Kentucky carries fewer home-service records than the country does, in the middle of the fifty-one this site counts. A thinner state usually means fewer competing quotes in the smaller markets and, in a busy season, a longer wait.

By raw record count Kentucky sits in the middle third of the states in this corpus, which is the size at which a single large metro can move a trade row on its own.

Kentucky'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.

Fewer of Kentucky's records are missing a street address than the national average, so Kentucky's lists are better addressed than the country's.

Almost none of Kentucky'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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

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

The metro fact pages Kentucky owns are Louisville/Jefferson County and Lexington-Fayette. Each carries the same counts for one trade in one metro area, and a metro that crosses a state line is listed under the state its name leads with, not under every state it touches.

Ordered by records per resident, Kentucky sits between Louisiana above it and Texas 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, Kentucky's neighbours are Alabama and Iowa. 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 Kentucky records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade in Kentucky is pest control.

Within Kentucky, pool 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 pool.

Other home service is the Kentucky trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool 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 Kentucky is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.

Kentucky is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Kentucky row above carries a licensed share and no Kentucky 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, Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction is where a Kentucky licence is checked and Kentucky Attorney General is where a Kentucky homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Kentucky contractor and resolves none.

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