Cumberland County, ME has about as many cleaning and janitorial businesses per resident as the national average.
Cumberland County, ME has 140 with employees and 882 without — 1,022 janitorial and cleaning services in total, 32.8 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 32.7 (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
- In Cumberland County
- 140
- Per 10k residents
- 32.8
- National rate
- 32.7
- Ratio
- About the national rate
Population 311,258. Ranked 8 of 16 Maine counties with enough cleaning services data to compare — 1 = fewest per resident.
Sources: US Census County Business Patterns ↗ (businesses with employees) and Nonemployer Statistics ↗ (sole proprietors). Every figure here is the two added together.
Cumberland County, ME has 382 more janitorial and cleaning services than in 2017 — 640 then, 1,022 now, up 60%. Nationally the count grew 42% over the same years.
What this doesn't tell you: Census counts how many exist each year, not how many opened or closed. A rise of 382 could be 382 new businesses — or 390 openings and 8 closures. A year Census suppressed for this county is left out rather than counted as zero.
Series runs 2017–2023. Earlier vintages exist but are not comparable: Census changed which small counties it publishes after 2016, so including them would show counties losing an industry that never left.
Census code 561720 covers janitorial and cleaning services — everything from commercial office-cleaning contractors to residential house-cleaning companies, counted as one industry.
The blind spot: This code is dominated by commercial janitorial contractors cleaning offices on contract, which is a different business from cleaning houses. A high count can mean the county has plenty of office cleaners and very few residential ones.
County Business Patterns counts only establishments with paid employees, which is why this page adds Nonemployer Statistics — the sole operators with no payroll, who are the majority in most of these trades. Both are counted above, and both are on census.gov if you want to check them.
Cumberland County sits close to the national rate for this category, which means this number is not an argument in either direction. Supply here looks ordinary. If you want to start this business, the case has to come from something this measurement cannot see — pricing, service quality, or a neighbourhood nobody covers.
Census counts these as one industry, so the 140 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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