Home-service contractors in Massachusetts

Massachusetts'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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts homeowners spend.

In order, Massachusetts'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 Massachusetts, 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 Massachusetts is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

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

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

Pest control is thinner in Massachusetts 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, Massachusetts carries more home-service records than the country does, among the ten densest of the fifty-one this site counts. The margin is real but unremarkable, and it moves with housing age as much as with anything about Massachusetts itself.

By raw record count Massachusetts sits in the upper third of the states in this corpus, large enough that its trade rows are stable from one release to the next.

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

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

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

The metro fact pages Massachusetts owns are Boston-Cambridge-Newton, Worcester and Springfield. 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, Massachusetts sits between Minnesota above it and North Dakota 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, Massachusetts's neighbours are New Jersey and Virginia. 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.

Massachusetts's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even in number. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in pest control, which is a difference the statewide split above hides.

Within Massachusetts, electrical 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 electrical.

Other home service is the Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.

Massachusetts is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Massachusetts row above carries a licensed share and no Massachusetts 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, Massachusetts Division of Occupational Licensure is where a Massachusetts licence is checked and Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation is where a Massachusetts homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Massachusetts contractor and resolves none.

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