Home-service contractors in Oklahoma

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

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

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

Measured against the national mix, Oklahoma is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of Oklahoma's records than it takes of the country's. Climate, housing stock and how a state's own businesses describe themselves all feed that, and this page separates none of them.

Cleaning is thinner in Oklahoma than it is nationally, the mirror of the lean above. Read it as a difference in how businesses here are categorised before reading it as a difference in what they do.

Per resident, Oklahoma carries fewer home-service records than the country does, among the ten thinnest of the fifty-one this site counts. A thinner state usually means fewer competing quotes in the smaller markets and, in a busy season, a longer wait.

By raw record count Oklahoma sits in the middle third of the states in this corpus, which is the size at which a single large metro can move a trade row on its own.

Oklahoma'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.

Address completeness in Oklahoma is close to the national average, so the lists linked from this page are neither unusually well nor unusually poorly addressed.

Almost none of Oklahoma'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. Pool holds what little of the review bucket Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Over the last twelve months more Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Oklahoma row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages Oklahoma owns are Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Each carries the same counts for one trade in one metro area, and a metro that crosses a state line is listed under the state its name leads with, not under every state it touches.

Ordered by records per resident, Oklahoma sits between Arkansas above it and New York 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, Oklahoma's neighbours are Iowa and Kansas. 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 Oklahoma records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade in Oklahoma is flooring.

Within Oklahoma, electrical is the most independently held trade and pool the least. That gap is the reason the statewide independent share is a summary rather than a description: a homeowner hiring in pool meets a different market from one hiring in electrical.

Cleaning is the Oklahoma 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 a cleaning page in Oklahoma is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.

Oklahoma is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Oklahoma row above carries a licensed share and no Oklahoma 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, Oklahoma Construction Industries Board is where an Oklahoma licence is checked and Oklahoma Attorney General is where an Oklahoma homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about an Oklahoma contractor and resolves none.

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