Home-service contractors in New Hampshire

New Hampshire'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 New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire homeowners spend.

In order, New Hampshire'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 New Hampshire, 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 New Hampshire is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

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

Electrical takes a larger share of New Hampshire's records than it takes nationally, which is the clearest way New Hampshire'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 New Hampshire 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, New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire itself.

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

New Hampshire'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.

Far fewer of New Hampshire's records are missing a street address than the national average, which is the mark of a state whose home-service businesses mostly work from a fixed premises.

Almost none of New Hampshire'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 New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

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

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

Ordered by records per resident, New Hampshire is first of the fifty-one, immediately above Connecticut.

Ordered by total records rather than by rate, New Hampshire's neighbours are Mississippi and Idaho. 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 New Hampshire records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations, and they concentrate in pest control; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is pest control.

Within New Hampshire, 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 New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.

New Hampshire is outside the verified-licence layer, so no New Hampshire row above carries a licensed share and no New Hampshire 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, New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification is where a New Hampshire licence is checked and New Hampshire Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Bureau is where a New Hampshire homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a New Hampshire contractor and resolves none.

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