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Cleaning contractors in Charleston-North Charleston, SC

The Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area has 148 cleaning contractors, or 1.74 per 10,000 residents.

What cleaning work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national cleaning page. South Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for cleaning, so this page shows no licensed share; the South Carolina page says what it does publish.

The facts

Cleaning contractors in this metro
148
Per 10,000 residents
1.74 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
7
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in South Carolina. No cleaning record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
141 independent, 4 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.03% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 849,417, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about cleaning in Charleston-North Charleston

By record count, cleaning is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Charleston-North Charleston, behind HVAC and ahead of flooring. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Charleston-North Charleston.

Per resident, Charleston-North Charleston carries more cleaning records than South Carolina as a whole.

The independent share of Charleston-North Charleston's cleaning records is close to the South Carolina figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Charleston-North Charleston's cleaning records are missing a street address than across South Carolina.

South Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for cleaning that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Charleston-North Charleston is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no cleaning record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for cleaning in Charleston-North Charleston, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to cleaning cleanly enough to print, so Charleston-North Charleston carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Charleston-North Charleston cleaning records that are not independent, 4 are franchise brands and 0 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Charleston-North Charleston's cleaning records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.

More cleaning records first appeared in Charleston-North Charleston over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Charleston-North Charleston differs from the metro enough on cleaning to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 5 South Carolina metro areas this site publishes a cleaning page for, Charleston-North Charleston is 2nd of 5 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a cleaning page for rather than every metro area in South Carolina.

Ordered by cleaning records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a cleaning page for, the hubs either side of Charleston-North Charleston are San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont above it and Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek below it.

Cleaning contractors, A to Z

148 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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