Home-service contractors in Rhode Island

Rhode Island'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 Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island homeowners spend.

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

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

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

Pool is thinner in Rhode Island 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, Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island is one of the smaller states in this corpus. Small totals move proportionally more between releases, so a change in a Rhode Island row is weaker evidence of a change on the ground than the same change in a large state.

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

Electrical, flooring, landscaping, painting and roofing are the Rhode Island trades 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 Rhode Island records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; pest control added the largest share of new records and cleaning 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 Rhode Island rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Rhode Island row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

Rhode Island owns one metro fact page, for Providence-Warwick, and every trade hub beneath it. A metro is listed under the state its name leads with, so a metro area that crosses into Rhode Island but is named for its neighbour appears on that neighbour's page instead.

Ordered by records per resident, Rhode Island sits between Iowa above it and Ohio 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, Rhode Island's neighbours are West Virginia and Delaware. 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 Rhode Island records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade in Rhode Island is plumbing.

Within Rhode Island, electrical 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 electrical.

Other home service is the Rhode Island 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 an other home service page in Rhode Island is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.

Rhode Island is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Rhode Island row above carries a licensed share and no Rhode Island 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, Rhode Island Contractors' Registration and Licensing Board is where a Rhode Island licence is checked and Rhode Island Attorney General is where a Rhode Island homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Rhode Island contractor and resolves none.

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