Home-service contractors in Columbus, OH

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

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

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

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

No trade is strongly over-represented in Columbus against Ohio. Cleaning leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

HVAC is thinner in Columbus 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 plumbing are Columbus's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

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

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Columbus. 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 Columbus, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Columbus's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 7,210 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 332 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.

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

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

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

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

More Columbus 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.

Inside Columbus, the city of Columbus itself and Westerville, Dublin, Newark and Lancaster differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own, along with 5 more. Each of them carries one trade.

Columbus, 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 Columbus on this site are Kansas City above it and Cleveland below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Columbus's neighbours are Shreveport-Bossier City and Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.