Home-service contractors in South Carolina

South Carolina'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 South Carolina 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 South Carolina homeowners spend.

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

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

Measured against the national mix, South Carolina is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of South Carolina'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.

Electrical is thinner in South Carolina 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, South Carolina 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 South Carolina 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.

South Carolina'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.

More of South Carolina's records carry no street address than the national average, which usually means a larger share of the state's businesses run from a home rather than a storefront.

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

Over the last twelve months more South Carolina records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; cleaning added the largest share of new records and plumbing 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 South Carolina rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other South Carolina row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages South Carolina owns are Greenville-Anderson-Greer, Columbia, Charleston-North Charleston and Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, and 1 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, South Carolina sits between Kansas above it and Tennessee 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, South Carolina's neighbours are Connecticut and Oregon. 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.

South Carolina's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even in number. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in other home service, which is a difference the statewide split above hides.

Within South Carolina, pool 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 pool.

Painting is the South Carolina trade whose records most often carry no street address, and electrical the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on a painting page in South Carolina is thinner in addresses than an electrical one and no less real for it.

South Carolina is outside the verified-licence layer, so no South Carolina row above carries a licensed share and no South Carolina 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, South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation is where a South Carolina licence is checked and South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs is where a South Carolina homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a South Carolina contractor and resolves none.

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