Home-service contractors in Mississippi

Mississippi's largest trade by record count is other home service, and it is dominant rather than merely first: more than a quarter of every home-service record this site holds for Mississippi sits in that one trade, with HVAC the next largest. A concentrated mix like this usually says more about how the source data categorises a business than about how Mississippi homeowners spend.

In order, Mississippi's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and plumbing. Other home service alone account for half of every record on this page, which is a narrow base for a statewide figure.

Every one of the eleven trades this site counts carries at least one record in Mississippi, which is not true of every state. The smallest of them here is pool, and a small row is a small row: it is not evidence that Mississippi is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

At the other end of the same ordering, Mississippi's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of Mississippi, so most of their metro hub pages clear this site's publish floor and publish.

Measured against the national mix, Mississippi is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of Mississippi's records than it takes of the country's. Climate, housing stock and how a state's own businesses describe themselves all feed that, and this page separates none of them.

Painting is thinner in Mississippi than it is nationally, the mirror of the lean above. Read it as a difference in how businesses here are categorised before reading it as a difference in what they do.

Per resident, Mississippi carries fewer home-service records than the country does, among the ten thinnest of the fifty-one this site counts. A thinner state usually means fewer competing quotes in the smaller markets and, in a busy season, a longer wait.

By raw record count Mississippi is one of the smaller states in this corpus. Small totals move proportionally more between releases, so a change in a Mississippi row is weaker evidence of a change on the ground than the same change in a large state.

Mississippi's split between independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records is close to the national one, so the chain mix on this page is typical rather than distinctive.

Address completeness in Mississippi is close to the national average, so the lists linked from this page are neither unusually well nor unusually poorly addressed.

Almost none of Mississippi's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts on this page describe nearly the whole state rather than most of it. Pest control holds what little of the review bucket Mississippi has.

Read per resident rather than by count, the ordering does not change at the top: other home service is both the largest trade in Mississippi and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Electrical, landscaping and painting are the Mississippi trades in which every record is already classified as independent, franchise brand or corporate owned, with none left in review. The other rows on this page carry at least one name the chain rule has not finished with.

Over the last twelve months more Mississippi records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; pool added the largest share of new records and flooring lost the largest share to closed flags. A record appears when the source learns about a business, which is not the same event as a business opening.

Cleaning, Flooring, Landscaping, Other home service, Painting, Pest control and Pool carry no Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation in the extract loaded here, so those Mississippi rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Mississippi row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages Mississippi owns are Jackson and Gulfport-Biloxi. Each carries the same counts for one trade in one metro area, and a metro that crosses a state line is listed under the state its name leads with, not under every state it touches.

Ordered by records per resident, Mississippi sits between Utah above it and Nevada below it. Those two are the states this page's per-resident rate is closest to, and they are named because a rank on its own says less than the company it keeps.

Ordered by total records rather than by rate, Mississippi's neighbours are Nevada and New Hampshire. A state can sit high on one of these two orderings and low on the other, and reading both is the point of naming them.

Of the Mississippi records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade in Mississippi is flooring.

Within Mississippi, electrical is the most independently held trade and pest control the least. That gap is the reason the statewide independent share is a summary rather than a description: a homeowner hiring in pest control meets a different market from one hiring in electrical.

Other home service is the Mississippi trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on an other home service page in Mississippi is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.

Mississippi is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Mississippi row above carries a licensed share and no Mississippi profile carries a licence fact. The counts are still measured; what is absent is the join between them and a licence file, which is why the licensed-share row reads as not published rather than as zero.

Until that changes, Mississippi State Board of Contractors is where a Mississippi licence is checked and Mississippi Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division is where a Mississippi homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Mississippi contractor and resolves none.

Taking the largest row on its own: other home service is about as large a part of Mississippi as it is of the country, so Mississippi leads with that trade for the same reason the country does.