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Electrical contractors in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro area has 475 electrical contractors, or 1.69 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
475
Per 10,000 residents
1.69 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
12
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in North Carolina. 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
5,250 employed, $59,080 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $28.41.
Independent, franchise, corporate
469 independent, 1 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 5 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.63% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.42% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,805,115, 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia

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

Per resident, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia carries fewer electrical records than North Carolina as a whole.

The independent share of Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's electrical records is close to the North Carolina figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Address completeness on Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's electrical records is close to the North Carolina figure.

North Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for electrical that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, 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 5,250 workers across Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, and this site publishes 475 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia electrical records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia'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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 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 9 North Carolina metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia is 8th of 9 by records per resident, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in North Carolina.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia are Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington above it and Youngstown-Warren below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

471 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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