Home-service contractors in Rochester, NY

Other home service is Rochester'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, Rochester's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Rochester. The smallest of them here is pool.

Rochester's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and cleaning. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Rochester 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, Rochester carries more home-service records than New York as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Roofing takes a larger share of Rochester than of New York, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Even Rochester's thinnest trade against New York, plumbing, sits close to the state share.

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

No Rochester 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 Rochester, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Rochester. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.

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

Electrical carries Rochester's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,540 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 193 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, plumbing and roofing follow it.

Of the Rochester records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.

Within Rochester, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

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

Other home service is the Rochester trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Rochester records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.

One city inside Rochester, Irondequoit, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Rochester, NY sits inside New York 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 Rochester on this site are Tucson above it and Tulsa below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Rochester's neighbours are Jacksonville and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.