Home-service contractors in North Dakota

North Dakota'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 North Dakota sits in that one trade, with landscaping the next largest. A concentrated mix like this usually says more about how the source data categorises a business than about how North Dakota homeowners spend.

In order, North Dakota's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. 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 North Dakota, 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 North Dakota is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

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

Electrical takes a larger share of North Dakota's records than it takes nationally, which is the clearest way North Dakota's trade mix departs from the country's. The gap is real but ordinary and would not survive being called a trend.

At the other end, pest control is far thinner in North Dakota than it is nationally. A trade this far under the national share is usually one the state's businesses file under a different category rather than one that is genuinely absent.

Per resident, North Dakota carries more home-service records than the country does, among the ten densest of the fifty-one this site counts. The margin is real but unremarkable, and it moves with housing age as much as with anything about North Dakota itself.

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

North Dakota'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.

Fewer of North Dakota's records are missing a street address than the national average, so North Dakota's lists are better addressed than the country's.

Almost none of North Dakota'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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pest control has the fewest.

Flooring, landscaping, plumbing, pool and roofing are the North Dakota 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 North Dakota records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; cleaning added the largest share of new records and landscaping 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 North Dakota rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other North Dakota row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

North Dakota owns one metro fact page, for Fargo, and every trade hub beneath it. A metro is listed under the state its name leads with, so a metro area that crosses into North Dakota but is named for its neighbour appears on that neighbour's page instead.

Ordered by records per resident, North Dakota sits between Massachusetts above it and Wisconsin 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, North Dakota's neighbours are Hawaii and Vermont. 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.

North Dakota's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even in number. The franchised ones concentrate in flooring and the corporate-owned ones in pest control, which is a difference the statewide split above hides.

Within North Dakota, landscaping 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 landscaping.

Flooring is the North Dakota trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on a flooring page in North Dakota is thinner in addresses than a plumbing one and no less real for it.

North Dakota is outside the verified-licence layer, so no North Dakota row above carries a licensed share and no North Dakota 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, North Dakota Secretary of State, Contractor Licensing is where a North Dakota licence is checked and North Dakota Attorney General, Consumer Protection is where a North Dakota homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a North Dakota contractor and resolves none.

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