Home-service contractors in Virginia

Virginia'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 Virginia 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 Virginia homeowners spend.

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

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

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

Pool is thinner in Virginia 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, Virginia 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 Virginia sits in the upper third of the states in this corpus, large enough that its trade rows are stable from one release to the next.

Virginia'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.

Address completeness in Virginia is close to the national average, so the lists linked from this page are neither unusually well nor unusually poorly addressed.

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

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

The metro fact pages Virginia owns are Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke and Lynchburg. 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, Virginia sits between New Jersey above it and Kansas 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, Virginia's neighbours are Massachusetts and Washington. 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.

Of the Virginia records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade in Virginia is flooring.

Within Virginia, electrical 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 electrical.

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

Virginia is outside the verified-licence layer, so no Virginia row above carries a licensed share and no Virginia 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, Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation is where a Virginia licence is checked and Virginia Attorney General, Consumer Protection Section is where a Virginia homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a Virginia contractor and resolves none.

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