Home-service contractors in Vermont

Vermont'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 Vermont 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 Vermont homeowners spend.

In order, Vermont's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. 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 Vermont, 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 Vermont is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

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

Electrical takes a larger share of Vermont's records than it takes nationally, which is the clearest way Vermont's trade mix departs from the country's. The gap is real but ordinary and would not survive being called a trend.

At the other end, pest control is far thinner in Vermont than it is nationally. A trade this far under the national share is usually one the state's businesses file under a different category rather than one that is genuinely absent.

Per resident, Vermont carries more home-service records than the country does, among the ten densest of the fifty-one this site counts. The margin is real but unremarkable, and it moves with housing age as much as with anything about Vermont itself.

By raw record count Vermont is one of the smaller states in this corpus. Small totals move proportionally more between releases, so a change in a Vermont row is weaker evidence of a change on the ground than the same change in a large state.

Vermont'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.

Far fewer of Vermont's records are missing a street address than the national average, which is the mark of a state whose home-service businesses mostly work from a fixed premises.

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

Cleaning, flooring, HVAC, painting, pest control and pool are the Vermont trades 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 Vermont records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; cleaning added the largest share of new records and other home service 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 Vermont rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other Vermont row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

No metropolitan area in the top two hundred by population is named for Vermont first, so this state owns no metro fact page of its own. Vermont records still publish: they sit on the profile pages the trade table's counts are built from, and on the hub pages of whichever metro's name leads with a neighbouring state.

Ordered by records per resident, Vermont sits between Connecticut above it and Maine 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, Vermont's neighbours are North Dakota and Nebraska. 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.

Vermont's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even in number. The franchised ones concentrate in painting and the corporate-owned ones in pest control, which is a difference the statewide split above hides.

Within Vermont, 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.

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

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

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