Home-service contractors in Louisiana

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

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

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

Measured against the national mix, Louisiana is heaviest in HVAC: that trade takes a far larger share of Louisiana's records than it takes of the country's. Climate, housing stock and how a state's own businesses describe themselves all feed that, and this page separates none of them.

Flooring is thinner in Louisiana 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, Louisiana 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 Louisiana 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.

Louisiana'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.

Address completeness in Louisiana is close to the national average, so the lists linked from this page are neither unusually well nor unusually poorly addressed.

Almost none of Louisiana'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. Pool holds what little of the review bucket Louisiana 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 Louisiana and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Over the last twelve months more Louisiana records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; cleaning added the largest share of new records and painting 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 Louisiana rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Louisiana row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages Louisiana owns are New Orleans-Metairie, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport-Bossier City, and 2 more. 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, Louisiana sits between California above it and Kentucky 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, Louisiana's neighbours are Oregon and Alabama. 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 Louisiana records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade in Louisiana is flooring.

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

Cleaning is the Louisiana 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 a cleaning page in Louisiana is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.

Louisiana is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Louisiana row above carries a licensed share and no Louisiana 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, Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors is where a Louisiana licence is checked and Louisiana Attorney General is where a Louisiana homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Louisiana contractor and resolves none.

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