Industry · NAICS 5617

Services to buildings and dwellings

The United States has 227,045 employer establishments in services to buildings and dwellings (6.7 per 10,000 residents), employing 2,156,568 people at an average annual pay of $40,433, plus 1,911,817 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
227,045
1,911,817 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
6.7
Paid employees
2,156,568
Average annual pay
$40,433

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places
State
Size
Services to buildings and dwellings by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX901,0961137,9741.30.19×691$28,1499,845
2Brownsville-Harlingen, TX428,906845,10620.29×495$28,7884,005
3Lumberton, NC118,005264,5392.20.33×389$48,0821,150
4Laredo, TX271,942614,4582.20.33×497$30,6003,127
5El Centro, CA180,683424,3022.30.34×441$42,8101,159
6Corbin, KY149,593393,8362.60.39×451$26,8941,054
7Hanford-Corcoran, CA153,197433,5632.80.42×189$35,111502
8Massena-Ogdensburg, NY106,607313,4392.90.43×467$62,752251
9Hammond, LA138,101423,28830.45×341$34,8681,427
10El Paso, TX876,6412683,2713.10.45×2,896$25,6257,380
11Odessa, TX165,946543,0733.30.48×344$43,2791,762
12Charleston, WV202,801682,9823.40.50×806$23,325572
13Cleveland, TN130,260442,9603.40.50×293$35,085885
14Merced, CA294,3191042,8303.50.52×513$44,2751,139
15Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX7,587,6462,7602,7493.60.54×50,159$38,02660,460
16Dalton, GA145,315532,7423.60.54×509$39,3201,056
17Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX397,4751452,7413.60.54×1,580$35,3603,155
18Fayetteville, NC392,3451442,7253.70.54×1,232$33,5932,256
19Killeen-Temple, TX502,4971872,6873.70.55×1,230$36,6072,419
20Richmond-Berea, KY127,624482,6593.80.56×184$27,076613
21Rome, GA100,193382,6373.80.56×487$34,6201,030
22Bakersfield-Delano, CA917,5993492,6293.80.56×2,476$37,9734,322
23Las Cruces, NM225,966862,6283.80.56×642$27,9601,208
24Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ124,716482,5983.80.57×312$33,599696
25Sunbury, PA108,107422,5743.90.58×233$26,725350

1–25 of 398 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

  • Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
  • Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
  • This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
  • County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
  • Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $2.1B on contracts under NAICS 5617 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (9,941 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$300.7M14%
    512 awards
  2. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$75M3.6%
    165 awards
  3. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX$63.7M3.1%
    74 awards
  4. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$46.1M2.2%
    143 awards
  5. Urban Honolulu, HI$43.1M2.1%
    102 awards
  6. Colorado Springs, CO$41.1M2.0%
    76 awards
  7. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$37M1.8%
    128 awards
  8. Fayetteville, NC$32.6M1.6%
    34 awards
  9. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$30.6M1.5%
    72 awards
  10. El Paso, TX$30.2M1.5%
    45 awards

Counties

  1. District of Columbia, DC$113.4M5.5%
    232 awards
  2. Bexar County, TX$63.1M3.0%
    66 awards
  3. Montgomery County, MD$59.1M2.8%
    74 awards
  4. Fairfax County, VA$50.8M2.4%
    52 awards
  5. Honolulu County, HI$43.1M2.1%
    102 awards
  6. New York County, NY$41.4M2.0%
    45 awards
  7. El Paso County, CO$41.1M2.0%
    76 awards
  8. Cumberland County, NC$32.6M1.6%
    34 awards
  9. San Diego County, CA$30.6M1.5%
    72 awards
  10. El Paso County, TX$30.2M1.5%
    45 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Washington city, DC$113.4M5.5%
    232 awards
  2. New York city, NY$51M2.5%
    81 awards
  3. Bethesda CDP, MD$47.6M2.3%
    43 awards
  4. San Antonio city, TX$36.6M1.8%
    63 awards
  5. Fayetteville city, NC$28.8M1.4%
    34 awards
  6. Arlington CDP, VA$24.2M1.2%
    18 awards
  7. Oklahoma City city, OK$22.8M1.1%
    25 awards
  8. Anchorage municipality, AK$20.8M1.0%
    56 awards
  9. Fort Carson CDP, CO$20.7M1.0%
    12 awards
  10. Urban Honolulu CDP, HI$19.9M1.0%
    57 awards

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)