Original research · Contractor census
The remodeling contractor census: seven states counted
Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah and North Carolina: our license records beside the federal employer count, with the inclusion rule for each state next to its number.
Written by HyreRemodel Research Desk Primary-source research and fact checking
The finding
In seven states the HyreRemodel store held 22,183 contractor license records on September 5, 2026, against 41,359 employer establishments that Census County Business Patterns 2023 files under NAICS 236118, Residential Remodelers. The two counts measure different things.
Where we counted a board’s classes statewide, in Arizona and Nevada, licenses outnumber CBP establishments 2.72 to 1. In the other five states our count is a floor, a sample or a city register, not a census.
Seven limits to read before the table
The limits of this census sit here rather than in a footnote, because a row quoted without them misstates the finding.
The store covers Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah and North Carolina. No national contractor count follows from 22,183 records. The one national figure here is CBP’s 135,337 employer establishments in NAICS 236118, which counts something else.
Only 2,432 of the 22,183 records sit in a class whose name says remodeling (Arizona’s named classes and Nevada’s B-7). The rest authorize the work without naming it. A Nevada B-2 or a Florida CBC may mostly build new houses.
The board harvest for the Raleigh and Charlotte metros returned 3,583 roster rows. We selected 200 candidates, the cap dropped 3,383, and 149 companies were added. Fourteen city queries hit the portal’s 300-row ceiling.
Texas issues no residential general contractor license. 805 records are San Antonio registrations and 150 are El Paso registrations. They do not apply in Houston, Dallas, Austin or any unincorporated county.
We divide by ACS 2024 owner-occupied units (table B25003). In North Carolina and Texas the top of that fraction is not a state count, so the density shows our research effort, not the supply of contractors.
Only 123 of 23,756 companies (0.5%) have a founding year on file. That is too few to describe the age of the trade, so we do not.
CBP counts only establishments with paid employees, so a sole trader with no payroll is not in it. Our count misses any licensee our inclusion rule did not reach. The two gaps do not cancel out.
A store snapshot is not a live license check. Before you hire, check the issuing board and the building department for your address.
Why count who is licensed to remodel?
Remodeling demand is well measured. Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies has run its Remodeling Futures Program since 1995 and publishes the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) each quarter.
Its July 23, 2026 release, “Remodeling Spending Poised for Further Slowdown,” projects that home improvement and repair spending keeps losing momentum through mid-2027. Remodeling magazine’s Cost vs. Value report covers resale value. We cite both and do not try to replace either.
What neither publishes is a count of who holds a license, registration or city filing to do the work. The usual stand-in is County Business Patterns.
It is the right tool for employer establishments: 135,337 in NAICS 236118 in 2023, 81.0% of them with fewer than five employees. A sole trader with no payroll is outside it.
HyreRemodel analysis: the count is missing because “licensed remodeling contractor” is not one legal fact. Florida’s certified building and residential classes do not name remodeling. Arizona’s B-3 General Remodeling and Repair class does. Nevada issues B-7 Residential Remodeling to a few dozen holders and B-2 to thousands.
Texas issues nothing at state level. North Carolina’s license applies only from $40,000. Adding those regimes into one national headcount gives a number no one can check against a statute, so this page keeps them apart and prints the rule behind each cell.
Two counts that measure different things
- Our count
- A license file in the HyreRemodel store with a state, an issuing authority, a license number and a retrieval date. Measured September 5, 2026: 22,183 files, of which 21,956 verified active, 183 inactive, 35 suspended and 9 revoked. The unit is a credential. One company can hold several.
- CBP count
- Census County Business Patterns 2023, table CBP2023.CB2300CBP, NAICS 236118 Residential Remodelers, all legal forms of organization. The unit is an establishment with paid employees whose main activity is remodeling homes. New-home builders are filed under 236115, 236116 and 236117 instead.
- Our-count-to-CBP ratio
- HyreRemodel calculation: store license records for a state ÷ CBP 2023 NAICS 236118 establishments for that state. Above 1 can mean we counted licensees CBP leaves out, or that the license class is broader than 236118. Below 1 can mean our count is a sample. It is not a completeness score.
- Density
- HyreRemodel calculation: license records (or CBP establishments) ÷ ACS 2024 1-year owner-occupied housing units (table B25003, B25003_E002) × 10,000. Owner-occupied units, because the remodeling customer in the LIRA frame is the owner. The ACS figure is an estimate; its margin of error is in the table note.
The seven-state arithmetic
Each figure is a store count, a Census count, or one divided by the other. None is a national count of remodeling contractors.
Seven states: our count, CBP, ratio and density
HyreRemodel calculation from the store (measured September 5, 2026), CBP 2023 and ACS 2024 1-year, retrieved September 5, 2026. Density is per 10,000 owner-occupied units. Read the sampling frame before ranking any state.
| State | Our licenses | CBP 236118 | Our ÷ CBP | ACS owner-occupied | Our per 10k | CBP per 10k | Sampling frame |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7,130 | 10,287 | 0.69 | 6,220,116 | 11.5 | 16.5 | Store subset of CBC + CRC. CGC harvested, not added. |
| Arizona | 4,932 | 2,256 | 2.19 | 2,020,822 | 24.4 | 11.2 | Statewide ROC class sweep. Store is a subset of the harvest. |
| California | 4,820 | 16,792 | 0.29 | 7,701,876 | 6.3 | 21.8 | CSLB name-token lower bound. No classification search exists. |
| Nevada | 3,494 | 839 | 4.16 | 744,844 | 46.9 | 11.3 | Census of Nevada-addressed B-family and C-3-family licenses. |
| Texas | 955 | 6,224 | 0.15 | 7,134,877 | 1.3 | 8.7 | San Antonio + El Paso city registrations. No state GC license. |
| Utah | 703 | 1,315 | 0.53 | 824,019 | 8.5 | 16.0 | DOPL name-token search. Not a class census. |
| North Carolina | 149 | 3,646 | 0.04 | 3,004,713 | 0.5 | 12.1 | Capped candidate set from the Raleigh and Charlotte metros. Not a state count. |
Our count: license files by state, HyreRemodel store, measured September 5, 2026. CBP: County Business Patterns 2023, table CBP2023.CB2300CBP, NAICS 236118, all legal forms, released June 26, 2025. ACS owner-occupied: 2024 1-year table B25003, column B25003_E002. Ratio and density are HyreRemodel calculations. The CSV adds margins of error and a comparable-to-CBP flag: remodeling-contractor-census.csv.
Do not rank North Carolina or Texas on density. Their counts are not state counts. ACS owner-occupied units (± margin of error): Arizona 2,020,822 (±17,826); California 7,701,876 (±35,244); Florida 6,220,116 (±33,347); Nevada 744,844 (±10,417); North Carolina 3,004,713 (±23,216); Texas 7,134,877 (±33,201); Utah 824,019 (±7,708).
What counts as a licensed remodeler in each state?
The classes are not comparable, and a careful researcher could draw the line differently in every state. So we publish the line we drew, the board query behind it, and what falls outside it.
The full class taxonomy is a separate study, contractor license classes by state. This page owns the count that falls out of the line.
Outside Arizona’s named classes and Nevada’s B-7, the class name does not say remodeling. A license authorizes the work; it does not show the firm does it. We do not turn “authorized to remodel” into “is a remodeler,” so every rule below is written as authorization.
The seven inclusion rules, state by state
Florida: DBPR Construction Industry Licensing Board
Store count: 7,130 licenses. CBP 236118: 10,287 establishments. Ratio 0.69.
Inclusion rule: Certified Building Contractor (CBC, license type 0602) and Certified Residential Contractor (CRC, 0608), rank DBA, status “Current, Active.” The store holds 4,580 CBC and 2,550 CRC.
Certified General Contractor (CGC, 0605) also authorizes residential remodeling and is not in the store. Neither are county-registered building and residential contractors.
Sampling frame: the August 30, 2026 harvest queried all 67 counties plus Foreign, Out of State and Unknown. CRC returned 7,136 Current/Active DBA rows and CBC 16,854, with no county capped. CGC returned 30,702, with Dade (400 of 511 pages) and Out of State (400 of 438 pages) still capped.
The store holds 7,130 of those rows: 29.7% of the uncapped CRC and CBC harvest and none of the CGC harvest. It is a selected subset of two of three statewide classes, not a census of Florida remodelers.
Arizona: Registrar of Contractors
Store count: 4,932 licenses. CBP 236118: 2,256 establishments. Ratio 2.19.
Classes that name the work: B-3 General Remodeling and Repair (817), CR-61 Carpentry, Remodeling and Repairs (835), R-61 (63), C-61 (8) and R-62 Minor Home Improvements (637), 2,360 in all.
Classes that only authorize it: B General Residential (764), KB-1 Dual Building (712), KB-2 Dual Residential and Small Commercial (806) and CR-7 Carpentry (267), 2,549 in all. Another 23 records in other specialty classes came in on dual-license accounts.
Sampling frame: the August 30, 2026 harvest queried the ROC public search by class, then split any class near the ~960-row ceiling across 263 cities. No city query returned at the ceiling. The harvest holds 6,151 accounts, 5,685 of them Arizona-addressed.
The store holds 4,932, a subset of that census. Arizona is the one state here where a class name on the board is itself evidence of the service, which makes it the cleanest single-state cut we hold.
HyreRemodel analysis: a ratio of 2.19 is what you would expect when a license census includes sole traders CBP excludes and general-building classes CBP files under 236115. It does not mean Arizona has twice the remodelers the Census counts. The two sources count different populations.
California: Contractors State License Board
Store count: 4,820 licenses. CBP 236118: 16,792 establishments. Ratio 0.29.
Inclusion rule: a CSLB license reached by a name or alphabet sweep, opened on the license detail page, and kept under the August 30, 2026 rule. B General Building qualifies a firm but says nothing about whether it remodels. C-6, C-9, C-15, C-33 and C-54 qualify only where the business name names the trade.
CSLB issues no remodeling class. 4,620 of 4,820 store records (95.9%) hold B General Building.
Sampling frame: CSLB has no class search, so a B holder trading as “Pacific Coast Outdoor Living” is never reached by a name search. Alphabet sweeps were marked incomplete. The city filter was 69 California cities, capped at 260 records each.
California’s 4,820 is a lower bound. For “how many remodeling firms with payroll operate in California,” CBP’s 16,792 establishments is the figure to use.
Nevada: State Contractors Board
Store count: 3,494 licenses. CBP 236118: 839 establishments. Ratio 4.16.
Inclusion rule: a primary class in the B family or the C-3 family, with a Nevada address.
Store classes: B-2 Residential and Small Commercial 1,803; C-3 Carpentry, Maintenance and Minor Repairs 645; B General Building 553; C-3B Finish Carpentry 300; C-3A Carpentry and Repairs 104; B-7 Residential Remodeling 63; B-6 Commercial Remodeling 17; B-7 Restricted 9.
Only 72 of those name residential remodeling (B-7 and B-7 Restricted). The rest authorize the work without naming it.
Sampling frame: the August 29, 2026 harvest queried the board by class with County = All. Both queries returned uncapped, and the parsed rows matched the board’s own record counts: 3,932 in B and 1,495 in C-3. After the class filter, 5,138 rows remained: 3,494 Nevada-addressed and 1,644 out of state.
The store’s 3,494 equals the Nevada-addressed harvest. It is a census of those two families, not of every Nevada remodeler: a C-16 flooring or C-20 tile firm trading as a kitchen company is outside it.
HyreRemodel analysis: 4.16 is the widest ratio on the page because the broadest class census we ran meets the smallest CBP base. B-2 is a residential builder’s license, and CBP files a B-2 firm that mostly builds new houses under 236115. The ratio measures that mismatch.
Texas: no state license, two city registers
Store count: 955 records. CBP 236118: 6,224 establishments. Ratio 0.15, printed so the cell is not blank. It is not comparable.
Inclusion rule: a contractor registration with the City of San Antonio Development Services Department (Contractor Connect) or the City of El Paso Planning and Inspections Department (Accela Citizen Access). The state licensing agency, TDLR, does not license general contractors. See states without contractor licensing and remodeling contractors in Texas.
Sampling frame: 805 San Antonio records and 150 El Paso records. San Antonio work types in the store: Additions 428, Fences 245, Minor Repairs 68, New Homes 59, Foundations 5. El Paso’s 150 are classed Contractor General.
Fence registrations are in the count. They are not remodelers, but the Texas layer is a city-registration layer, not a remodeling-class layer, so they stay. Houston, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth and every unincorporated county are absent.
Our research files also hold a Texas Comptroller list of active sales-tax permit holders coded NAICS 236118 (3,443 outlet rows on August 29, 2026). That code is self-reported on a tax permit. It is not a license and is not in this census.
Utah: Division of Professional Licensing
Store count: 703 licenses. CBP 236118: 1,315 establishments. Ratio 0.53.
Inclusion rule: a DOPL contractor license found by name search (remodel, kitchen, bath, cabinet, countertop, renovations, design-build, home-improvement) and stored with its qualifier class.
Store classes: B100 General Building 368; S220 Carpentry and Flooring 226; S270 Drywall, Paint and Plastering 31; S230 Masonry, Siding, Glass and Gutters 24; E100 General Engineering 16; R101 Residential and Small Commercial Nonstructural 14; plus a few HVAC, roofing, plumbing and landscape qualifiers. Utah has no class that names remodeling.
Sampling frame: a name search, not a pull of every B100 holder. A general builder whose name contains none of the search terms is missing, so Utah’s 703 is a floor.
Disciplinary actions in this snapshot are filled in only for Utah. That reflects what we retrieved, not a finding that only Utah contractors face board action. The clean board records study explains why an empty field is not a clean record.
North Carolina: Licensing Board for General Contractors
Store count: 149 licenses. CBP 236118: 3,646 establishments. Ratio 0.04, printed so the cell is not blank. It is not comparable.
Inclusion rule: an NCLBGC license in class 28 Residential, 27 Building or 44 S (Interior Construction), from the Raleigh and Charlotte metro city list, added after its detail page was read. None of those class names say remodeling.
The license is required only where a project costs $40,000 or more (N.C.G.S. § 87-1, restated on the board’s homepage). A $35,000 kitchen in Raleigh has no NCLBGC license to check, so absence from this list is not a warning sign.
Sampling frame: the August 16, 2026 harvest queried 33 cities. The results grid stops at 300 rows and shows no total. Fourteen city and class queries stopped at that cap, including Residential in Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, Wake Forest, Clayton, Charlotte, Huntersville, Matthews, Mooresville, Concord, Waxhaw and Monroe.
Classes 27 and 44 were blocked by rate limits before returning rows. Roster rows in the two metros: 3,583. Candidates selected: 200. Dropped by the cap: 3,383. Companies added: 149. That is a capped candidate set, not 149 remodelers in North Carolina, and not a 4% completeness score against CBP.
Texas does not have fewer remodelers
Putting 955 in a table beside Florida’s 7,130 invites a wrong reading. Texas has no state credential to count. CBP, which ignores licenses, counts 6,224 Texas employer establishments in NAICS 236118, the third highest of these seven states after California and Florida.
San Antonio’s register is a work-type checkbox, not an exam. El Paso’s Contractor General registration asks for a $50,000 blanket building bond and $100,000 in liability cover on the city’s own application, under Title 18 of the El Paso City Code. Neither file is a state license, and neither applies outside its city.
Why our count and the Census count differ
County Business Patterns is the Census Bureau’s yearly count of employer establishments by place and industry. We read NAICS 236118 Residential Remodelers from the 2023 state file (cbp23st.txt) and US file (cbp23us.txt), all legal forms, from the Census CBP 2023 state dataset. It is also on data.census.gov as table CBP2023.CB2300CBP.
The Census definition of 236118 covers establishments “primarily responsible for the remodeling construction (including additions, alterations, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair work) of houses and other residential buildings, single-family and multifamily.” New single-family homes go under 236115, new multifamily under 236116 and for-sale housing under 236117.
A licensed general builder is not a 236118 establishment just because it holds a license. Three differences produce the gap, and they do not all push the same way.
1. Employer versus licensee. CBP counts only establishments with paid employees. A licensed sole trader with no payroll is in our count where we harvested the license, and not in CBP. Even inside CBP, 81.0% of US 236118 establishments have fewer than five employees (109,661 of 135,337).
The state shares are similar: Florida 85.5%, Arizona 76.4%, Nevada 70.1%. CBP already describes a small-shop industry. It is still not a license census.
2. Main activity versus authorization. Outside Arizona’s named classes and Nevada’s 72 B-7 records, we count licenses that authorize remodeling. CBP counts establishments that mainly do it.
A Nevada B-2 firm that built thirty new houses and two kitchens last year is in our 3,494 and in CBP 236115. That alone can push a ratio above 1.
3. Sample versus statewide universe. CBP is statewide everywhere. Our count is statewide only where we queried a board by class and kept the result: Nevada, and Arizona as a subset.
In Florida, California, Utah, Texas and North Carolina a ratio below 1 is the expected shape of an incomplete frame, not a sign of few remodelers.
HyreRemodel analysis: “there are far more licensed remodelers than federal statistics suggest” holds in Arizona and Nevada under our published rules, and nowhere else on this page.
The accurate version is narrower: where we counted licenses by class statewide, the license count exceeds the employer count, because a license is an authorization and CBP is a payroll census by main activity.
Most CBP remodeling establishments are small shops
| State | CBP establishments | Under 5 employees | Share under 5 | Paid employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 10,287 | 8,800 | 85.5% | 31,005 |
| Arizona | 2,256 | 1,723 | 76.4% | 12,580 |
| California | 16,792 | 12,765 | 76.0% | 71,834 |
| Nevada | 839 | 588 | 70.1% | 4,272 |
| Texas | 6,224 | 5,057 | 81.3% | 23,064 |
| Utah | 1,315 | 1,054 | 80.2% | 4,505 |
| North Carolina | 3,646 | 2,940 | 80.6% | 13,644 |
| United States | 135,337 | 109,661 | 81.0% | 480,272 |
County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 236118: establishments with fewer than 5 employees, and paid employees for the week of March 12, 2023. US paid employees from cbp23us.txt, same vintage and filter. Retrieved September 5, 2026.
CBP employment counts paid employees at employer establishments. It is not a count of licensed contractors or of everyone who remodels houses.
Contractors per 10,000 owner-occupied homes, and when not to use it
The denominator is ACS 2024 1-year table B25003 Tenure, owner-occupied housing units, from the Census table-based Summary File (acsdt1y2024-b25003.dat), retrieved September 5, 2026. The US estimate is 86,635,506 owner-occupied units.
We use owner-occupied units, not all housing or population, because LIRA’s spending frame is homeowners and a renter does not commission a kitchen remodel of a unit they do not own.
HyreRemodel calculation, our licenses per 10,000 owner-occupied units: Nevada 46.9, Arizona 24.4, Florida 11.5, Utah 8.5, California 6.3, Texas 1.3, North Carolina 0.5.
The same fraction with CBP establishments: California 21.8, Florida 16.5, Utah 16.0, North Carolina 12.1, Nevada 11.3, Arizona 11.2, Texas 8.7.
HyreRemodel analysis: the CBP figures cluster. Six states sit between 11.2 and 21.8; Texas is low at 8.7, still a real statewide count. Ours do not cluster, because no single rule produced them.
Nevada’s 46.9 is a class census over a small housing base; North Carolina’s 0.5 is a 200-candidate cap over a whole state. Ranking those two without their frames is the error this page exists to prevent. If you need a ranking, rank the CBP series.
Firm age: 123 records, too few to use
An August 2026 plan for this page asked for a firm-age profile and cited 14,771 of 23,756 records (62%) as having a founding date. That figure is out of date. Re-measured on September 5, 2026, a founding year is filled in on 123 of 23,756 companies: 0.5%.
We will not describe the age of the trade, a formation boom or survival rates from 123 records. They are the few files where a year happened to be written down, not a sample. A firm-age study will ship when the field is filled in, or not at all.
What this means if you are hiring a remodeler
A census of licenses recommends no firm in it. What it tells you is which register to open, and how much of the market that register sees.
Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah each have a state board lookup. In Arizona a B-3 tells you the class names the work.
In Florida a CRC tells you only that the board authorized residential building, remodeling included.
In California a B tells you the firm may contract work involving two or more unrelated trades, which covers a remodel and a new house alike.
Texas has no state lookup for a general contractor, so the question is which city you are in. San Antonio and El Paso register contractors; we hold no register for any other Texas city. TDLR is the right lookup for the electrician and the air-conditioning contractor on the job, not for the person running it.
In North Carolina the question is whether the job costs $40,000 or more. Below that, an empty NCLBGC search tells you nothing.
HyreRemodel recommendation: copy the license number from the bid, look it up on the board’s own site (the license lookup directory lists each one), and save the page with the date. Our store is a research snapshot from September 5, 2026, not a check for your job.
Checking what each bid includes tells you more than any license count. The bid comparison worksheet lines them up item by item.
How we built the count
How many verified remodeling credentials does the HyreRemodel store hold in each of seven states, under what class rule, and how does that compare with CBP employer establishments in NAICS 236118 for the same states?
We listed the license files in the store (data/remodeling-data/licenses/) by state on September 5, 2026: 22,183 files, with authority, status and class read from each. The snapshot is in src/data/research/store-snapshot.json. An older metrics file (540 companies, August 16, 2026) was stale and not used.
Counts in the August 2026 plan (FL 6,785, CA 4,775, AZ 4,490, TX 3,644, NV 3,214, UT 704, NC 149) are replaced by this measurement. North Carolina is the one cell that did not move.
Set out in the state-by-state block. Arizona and Nevada: a board query by named class. Florida: CBC + CRC, CGC not in the store.
California and Utah: name search on boards with no remodeling class. Texas: two city registers. North Carolina: three classes in two metros, then a cap. A company with two licenses is two rows.
CBP 2023 state file, NAICS 236118, all legal forms (lfo = '-'), field est. Table CBP2023.CB2300CBP, released June 26, 2025, retrieved September 5, 2026. The US total and the under-5 size class come from the same files. We do not use NAICS 2361 as a whole, because it includes new construction.
ACS 2024 1-year table B25003, column B25003_E002 (owner occupied), for the seven state geographies, from the Census table-based Summary File, retrieved September 5, 2026. Margins of error (B25003_M002) are in the CSV. Density = count ÷ owner-occupied units × 10,000.
Store licenses for a state ÷ CBP 236118 establishments for that state. All seven: 22,183 ÷ 41,359 = 0.54. Arizona and Nevada: 8,426 ÷ 3,095 = 2.72.
We did not produce a national count from a seven-state store, profile firm age from 123 records, rank states on density where the count is not statewide, or treat a tax-permit code or business-entity filing as a license.
What the next edition will change
The remodeling contractor census is a snapshot. License statuses change weekly and CBP once a year: the 2024 state file had not replaced the 2023 vintage as of September 5, 2026. The next edition will re-measure the store and swap in CBP 2024 and the ACS 2025 1-year file when each is published.
Four expansions would change a cell rather than a date: Florida CGC, a CSLB class search if the board adds one, an uncapped North Carolina harvest, and a Texas frame wider than two cities.
Until then the cells keep their labels. A bigger number from quietly widening a class or dropping a cap would be a different study with a different rule, not an update.
Questions
How many remodeling contractors are there in the US?
How many licensed remodeling contractors are there in Florida?
Why is Nevada’s license count so much larger than the Census count?
Are there only 149 remodeling contractors in North Carolina?
Does Texas license remodeling contractors?
What is NAICS 236118?
Why not just use County Business Patterns?
How many remodeling contractors are there per 10,000 homes?
Is this a count of companies or of licenses?
Does HyreRemodel do remodeling work?
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HyreRemodel Research Desk
Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
We are a research desk, not a remodeling contractor and not a sales floor.
We read the statute, the licensing register or the municipal fee schedule ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify.
This program is new, and the counts below are small: they are what we have actually published, not what we intend to.
- 7
- studies published
- 7
- states in the contractor store we measure against
- 264
- source documents linked from these pages, 101 of them on .gov domains
- 22,183
- license records measured September 5, 2026
How this desk works
- Primary sources only. Licensing facts come from the issuing board or the statute that creates the credential. Permit-fee facts come from the municipality that publishes the schedule. We do not cite an article that cites a source; we open the source and record the date.
- Our own store is titled to the states it covers. We hold verified contractor records for seven states. An asset that rests on those records is titled to those states. National claims rest on federal or state-agency data (Census, BLS, EPA), never on our counts.
- Absence of a record is not a finding about the company. A board that does not publish disciplinary history in a form we retrieved is excluded from any “clean record” claim. Unable to verify is not unlicensed. Not required is not not carried.
- Fact, calculation, analysis and recommendation stay labelled. A statute is a source fact. A count we derived from our store is a HyreRemodel calculation. What that count means is analysis. What a homeowner should do next is a recommendation.
- We do not remodel homes, and we take no payment for placement, ranking or a favorable mention. Nobody buys a position on this site.
Data as of September 5, 2026 (store count, CBP 2023, ACS 2024). Authorship on this site is organizational: the analysis belongs to the desk rather than to a named individual, and we do not publish credentials we do not hold. Our editorial policy sets out how we source, date and correct what we publish.
The data behind this page
Every figure on this page is computed from one file, and that file is published here so the analysis can be checked, disagreed with, or reused.
Sources & retrieval dates
Planning a remodel of your own?
The census tells you which register to open. For your own project, start with the scope, the permits and the bids, and tell us about it when you are ready.
HyreRemodel does not do remodeling work and has no commercial tie to any board, authority or contractor named here. Nothing on this page is a license check for your job, a quote, or legal advice. Confirm the current record with the issuing board and your building department.