Home-service contractors in Utah

Utah'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 Utah 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 Utah homeowners spend.

In order, Utah'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 Utah, 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 Utah is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

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

No trade is strongly over-represented in Utah. Pest control leans furthest above the national mix and even that lean is slight, so Utah looks like the country in miniature on this measure.

Pool is thinner in Utah 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, Utah carries fewer home-service records than the country does, among the ten thinnest of the fifty-one this site counts. A thinner state usually means fewer competing quotes in the smaller markets and, in a busy season, a longer wait.

By raw record count Utah 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.

Utah'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 Utah'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 Utah'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. Painting holds what little of the review bucket Utah 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 Utah and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Pool is the one Utah trade 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 Utah records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; plumbing added the largest share of new records and roofing 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 Utah rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Utah row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages Utah owns are Salt Lake City-Murray, Provo-Orem-Lehi and Ogden. 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, Utah sits between Alabama above it and Mississippi 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, Utah's neighbours are Kansas and Arkansas. 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.

Utah'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 pest control, which is a difference the statewide split above hides.

Within Utah, 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.

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

Utah is the one state whose licensee list this site does not republish at all, under Utah Administrative Code R156-1-106. Everything above it on this page is still measured: the Utah counts, the per-resident rate and the trade mix come from open place data, which the rule does not restrict. What is missing is the licence layer, and it stays missing for as long as the rule stands rather than until this site gets to Utah.

That leaves Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) as the place a Utah licence is checked, and Utah Division of Consumer Protection as the place a Utah dispute goes. Neither is reproduced here in any form, and this site holds no Utah licence records to reproduce.

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