Home-service contractors in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA

Other home service is Scranton--Wilkes-Barre'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 HVAC, the next largest.

In order, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre 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, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre sits close to the Pennsylvania rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Against Pennsylvania's own mix, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Painting is thinner in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre than across Pennsylvania, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are Scranton--Wilkes-Barre's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

No Scranton--Wilkes-Barre 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre. 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Scranton--Wilkes-Barre's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,050 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 122 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.

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

Within Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, landscaping and pool are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Scranton--Wilkes-Barre'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.

Pool is the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre 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.

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre records first appearing and records flagged closed were close to level over the last twelve months, so the file held its size. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and landscaping lost the largest share to closed flags.

One city inside Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre on this site are Chattanooga above it and New Haven below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre's neighbours are Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood and Peoria. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.