Home-service contractors in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Other home service is Durham-Chapel Hill'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, Durham-Chapel Hill's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and painting. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Durham-Chapel Hill. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Durham-Chapel Hill 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, Durham-Chapel Hill sits close to the North Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Painting takes a larger share of Durham-Chapel Hill than of North Carolina, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Even Durham-Chapel Hill's thinnest trade against North Carolina, roofing, sits close to the state share.

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

No Durham-Chapel Hill 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 Durham-Chapel Hill, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical and HVAC in Durham-Chapel Hill. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.

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

Electrical carries Durham-Chapel Hill's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,160 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 105 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. HVAC and plumbing follow it.

Of the Durham-Chapel Hill 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 Durham-Chapel Hill, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

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

Painting is the Durham-Chapel Hill trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pest control the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Durham-Chapel Hill 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 cleaning lost the largest share to closed flags.

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

Durham-Chapel Hill, NC sits inside North Carolina 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 Durham-Chapel Hill on this site are Jackson above it and Harrisburg-Carlisle below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Durham-Chapel Hill's neighbours are Milwaukee-Waukesha and Ann Arbor. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.