Home-service contractors in Portland-South Portland, ME

Other home service is Portland-South Portland'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, Portland-South Portland'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 Portland-South Portland. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Portland-South Portland 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, Portland-South Portland sits close to the Maine rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Cleaning takes a larger share of Portland-South Portland than of Maine, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Roofing is thinner in Portland-South Portland than across Maine, the mirror of the lean above.

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

No Portland-South Portland 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 Portland-South Portland, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Portland-South Portland. 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 Portland-South Portland, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Portland-South Portland's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,870 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 196 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 Portland-South Portland records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is painting.

Within Portland-South Portland, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Portland-South Portland'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.

Pest control is the Portland-South Portland 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 Portland-South Portland records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Portland-South Portland that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Biddeford and South Portland. Each of them carries one trade.

Portland-South Portland, ME sits inside Maine 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 Portland-South Portland on this site are New Haven above it and Reno below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Portland-South Portland's neighbours are North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota and Bend. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.