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Cleaning contractors in Raleigh-Cary, NC

The Raleigh-Cary, NC metro area has 340 cleaning contractors, or 2.25 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Cleaning contractors in this metro
340
Per 10,000 residents
2.25 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
21
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 cleaning record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
324 independent, 8 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 8 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.58% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.76% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,509,231, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about cleaning in Raleigh-Cary

By record count, cleaning is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Raleigh-Cary, behind HVAC and ahead of flooring. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Raleigh-Cary.

Per resident, Raleigh-Cary carries more cleaning records than North Carolina as a whole.

The independent share of Raleigh-Cary's cleaning 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 Raleigh-Cary's cleaning records is close to the North Carolina figure.

North Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for cleaning that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Raleigh-Cary is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no cleaning 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 cleaning in Raleigh-Cary, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to cleaning cleanly enough to print, so Raleigh-Cary carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Raleigh-Cary cleaning records that are not independent, 8 are franchise brands and 0 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Raleigh-Cary's cleaning records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.

More cleaning records first appeared in Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary differs from the metro enough on cleaning 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 cleaning page for, Raleigh-Cary is 2nd of 9 by records per resident, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a cleaning page for rather than every metro area in North Carolina.

Ordered by cleaning records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a cleaning page for, the hubs either side of Raleigh-Cary are San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles above it and Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville below it.

Cleaning contractors, A to Z

337 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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