Home-service contractors in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Other home service is Baltimore-Columbia-Towson'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, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson 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, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson sits close to the Maryland rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

No trade is strongly over-represented in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson against Maryland. Plumbing leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

Even Baltimore-Columbia-Towson's thinnest trade against Maryland, cleaning, sits close to the state share.

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

No Baltimore-Columbia-Towson 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 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.

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

Electrical carries Baltimore-Columbia-Towson's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 6,930 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 483 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 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is pest control.

Within Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, landscaping and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

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

Plumbing is the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson 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 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson 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 pool lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Baltimore-Columbia-Towson that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Baltimore, Columbia, Annapolis, Severna Park and Ellicott City, and 17 more. Each of them carries one trade.

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD sits inside Maryland 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 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson on this site are Denver-Aurora-Centennial above it and Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson's neighbours are Harrisburg-Carlisle and Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.