Home-service contractors in Akron, OH

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

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

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

Every trade in Akron 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, Akron sits close to the Ohio rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Pool takes a larger share of Akron than of Ohio, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

HVAC is thinner in Akron than across Ohio, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and roofing are Akron's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

No Akron 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 Akron, 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 Akron. 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 Akron, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Akron's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,360 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 113 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. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Akron's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in cleaning and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.

Within Akron, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

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

Painting is the Akron trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

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

Inside Akron, the city of Akron itself and Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson and Twinsburg differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.

Akron, OH sits inside Ohio 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 Akron on this site are Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh above it and Winston-Salem below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Akron's neighbours are Santa Rosa-Petaluma and Tallahassee. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.