Home-service contractors in Reading, PA

Other home service is Reading'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, Reading'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 Reading. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

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

Electrical takes a larger share of Reading than of Pennsylvania, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Pest control is thinner in Reading than across Pennsylvania, the mirror of the lean above.

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

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

Electrical carries Reading's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 820 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 102 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.

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

Within Reading, electrical and painting are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Reading'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 Reading 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 Reading records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.

No city inside Reading differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.

Reading, PA sits inside Pennsylvania 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 Reading on this site are Salem above it and Salinas below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Reading's neighbours are Winston-Salem and Spokane-Spokane Valley. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.