Home-service contractors in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania homeowners spend.

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

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

HVAC takes a larger share of Pennsylvania's records than it takes nationally, which is the clearest way Pennsylvania's trade mix departs from the country's. The gap is real but ordinary and would not survive being called a trend.

Pest control is thinner in Pennsylvania 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, Pennsylvania sits close to the national rate for home-service records, in the middle of the fifty-one this site counts. Being average is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up, and it means the counts on this page can be read as typical.

By raw record count Pennsylvania is one of the five largest states in this corpus, so its pages carry more names than most and its metro hubs page further.

Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Painting is the one Pennsylvania trade 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 Pennsylvania records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; pest control added the largest share of new records and other home service 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 Pennsylvania rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Pennsylvania row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages Pennsylvania owns are Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pittsburgh, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton and Harrisburg-Carlisle, and 5 more. 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, Pennsylvania sits between Oregon above it and Illinois 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, Pennsylvania's neighbours are New York and Illinois. 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 Pennsylvania records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade in Pennsylvania is pest control.

Within Pennsylvania, landscaping 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 landscaping.

Other home service is the Pennsylvania trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC 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 Pennsylvania is thinner in addresses than an HVAC one and no less real for it.

Pennsylvania is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Pennsylvania row above carries a licensed share and no Pennsylvania 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, Pennsylvania Attorney General, Home Improvement Contractor Registration is where a Pennsylvania licence is checked and Pennsylvania Attorney General, Bureau of Consumer Protection is where a Pennsylvania homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Pennsylvania contractor and resolves none.

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