Home-service contractors in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Other home service is Boston-Cambridge-Newton'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 landscaping, the next largest.

In order, Boston-Cambridge-Newton's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Boston-Cambridge-Newton. The smallest of them here is pool.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Boston-Cambridge-Newton 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, Boston-Cambridge-Newton sits close to the Massachusetts rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

No trade is strongly over-represented in Boston-Cambridge-Newton against Massachusetts. Flooring leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

Even Boston-Cambridge-Newton's thinnest trade against Massachusetts, pool, sits close to the state share.

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

No Boston-Cambridge-Newton 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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, 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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton. 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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Boston-Cambridge-Newton's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 13,410 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 1,119 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.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in painting and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.

Within Boston-Cambridge-Newton, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Boston-Cambridge-Newton'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.

Other home service is the Boston-Cambridge-Newton 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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton 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 pool lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Boston-Cambridge-Newton that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Boston, Framingham, Newton, Weymouth Town and Cambridge, and 25 more. Boston carries the most trades of them.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH crosses a state line, so this metro area sits in more than one licensing regime at once. Every count above is the whole metro; every licence figure beneath it is computed inside one state.

Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Boston-Cambridge-Newton on this site are Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler above it and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Boston-Cambridge-Newton's neighbours are Slidell-Mandeville-Covington and Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.