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Cleaning contractors in Columbia, SC

The Columbia, SC metro area has 111 cleaning contractors, or 1.29 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
111
Per 10,000 residents
1.29 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
5
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
101 independent, 7 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.77% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.80% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 858,302, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about cleaning in Columbia

By record count, cleaning is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Columbia, behind electrical and ahead of plumbing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Columbia.

Per resident, Columbia carries fewer cleaning records than South Carolina as a whole.

The independent share of Columbia'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 Columbia'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 Columbia 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 Columbia, 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 Columbia carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Columbia cleaning records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Columbia's cleaning records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More cleaning records first appeared in Columbia 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 Columbia 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, Columbia carries the fewest records per resident. 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 Columbia are Lafayette above it and York-Hanover below it.

Cleaning contractors, A to Z

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

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