Home-service contractors in Baton Rouge, LA

Other home service is Baton Rouge'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 HVAC, the next largest.

In order, Baton Rouge's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

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

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

Every trade in Baton Rouge 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, Baton Rouge sits close to the Louisiana rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

No trade is strongly over-represented in Baton Rouge against Louisiana. Cleaning leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

Painting is thinner in Baton Rouge than across Louisiana, the mirror of the lean above.

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

No Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge, 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 Baton Rouge. 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 Baton Rouge, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Baton Rouge's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 3,320 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 128 electrical 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. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Of the Baton Rouge records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Baton Rouge, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Baton Rouge'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.

Painting is the Baton Rouge trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Baton Rouge records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.

Inside Baton Rouge, the city of Baton Rouge itself and Prairieville differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.

Baton Rouge, LA sits inside Louisiana 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 Baton Rouge on this site are McAllen-Edinburg-Mission above it and Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Baton Rouge's neighbours are Fayetteville and Des Moines-West Des Moines. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.