Home-service contractors in Lake Charles, LA

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

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

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

One Lake Charles trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.

Per resident, Lake Charles sits close to the Louisiana rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

No trade is strongly over-represented in Lake Charles against Louisiana. Other home service leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

Landscaping is thinner in Lake Charles 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 Lake Charles's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.

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

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

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

Electrical carries Lake Charles's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 590 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 38 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 and HVAC follow it.

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

Within Lake Charles, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and painting the least.

Almost none of Lake Charles's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Flooring holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Painting is the Lake Charles 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 Lake Charles 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 plumbing lost the largest share to closed flags.

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

Lake Charles, 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 Lake Charles on this site are Binghamton above it and Macon-Bibb County below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Lake Charles's neighbours are New Orleans-Metairie and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.