Home-service contractors in Columbia, SC

Other home service is Columbia'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, Columbia's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Columbia. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Columbia 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, Columbia sits close to the South Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

No trade is strongly over-represented in Columbia against South Carolina. Electrical leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

Pool is thinner in Columbia than across South Carolina, the mirror of the lean above.

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

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

HVAC carries Columbia's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,220 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 181 HVAC 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. Electrical, plumbing and roofing follow it.

Columbia's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in cleaning and the corporate-owned ones in painting.

Within Columbia, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and cleaning the least.

Almost none of Columbia'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.

Painting is the Columbia 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.

More Columbia records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Roofing added the largest share of new records and plumbing lost the largest share to closed flags.

Inside Columbia, the city of Columbia itself and West Columbia differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.

Columbia, SC sits inside South Carolina 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 Columbia on this site are Worcester above it and Charleston-North Charleston below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Columbia's neighbours are Huntsville and Toledo. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.