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Electrical contractors in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area has 483 electrical contractors, or 1.70 per 10,000 residents.

What electrical work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national electrical page. Maryland publishes no business-level licence source for electrical, so this page shows no licensed share; the Maryland page says what it does publish.

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
483
Per 10,000 residents
1.70 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
8
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
3
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Maryland. No electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
6,930 employed, $65,590 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $31.54.
Independent, franchise, corporate
473 independent, 0 franchise brand, 3 corporate owned, 7 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.41% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.21% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,834,316, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2111.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about electrical in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson

By record count, electrical is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, behind plumbing and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson.

Per resident, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson sits close to the Maryland rate for electrical, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson's electrical records is close to the Maryland figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson's electrical records are missing a street address than across Maryland.

Maryland publishes no business-level licence source for electrical that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Baltimore-Columbia-Towson is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for electrical in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 6,930 workers across Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, 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.

Of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson electrical records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson's electrical records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More electrical records first appeared in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Baltimore-Columbia-Towson differs from the metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 2 Maryland metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in Maryland.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson are Port St. Lucie above it and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

477 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 1 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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