Home-service contractors in Springfield, MA

Other home service is Springfield's largest trade, and two of every five records here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.

In order, Springfield's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.

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

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

Every trade in Springfield 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, Springfield sits close to the Massachusetts rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Against Massachusetts's own mix, Springfield is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Painting is thinner in Springfield than across Massachusetts, the mirror of the lean above.

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

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

Electrical carries Springfield's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 860 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 114 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 Springfield records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pool; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.

Within Springfield, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and cleaning the least.

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

Other home service is the Springfield 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 Springfield records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and painting lost the largest share to closed flags.

One city inside Springfield, Westfield, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Springfield, MA sits inside Massachusetts 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 Springfield on this site are York-Hanover above it and Fort Wayne below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Springfield's neighbours are Cedar Rapids and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.