Fayette County, GA has about as many cleaning and janitorial businesses per resident as the national average.
Fayette County, GA has 21 with employees and 367 without — 388 janitorial and cleaning services in total, 31.4 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 32.7 (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
Fayette County, GA has about as many of these as the country does. There is no gap here worth putting a figure on.
Businesses per 10,000 residents · national rate = 100% · axis 0–200%
The shaded band is the range Scoutway treats as ordinary. A county inside it is average, and the difference from the national rate is not an argument in either direction.
US Census County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023 · NAICS 561720. This counts how many of these businesses there are — not how many people want one. Ask around before you spend anything.
- In Fayette County
- 388
- Per 10k residents
- 31.4
- National rate
- 32.7
- Ratio
- About the national rate
Population 123,698. Ranked 5 of 82 Georgia 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.
Fayette County, GA has 109 more janitorial and cleaning services than in 2017 — 279 then, 388 now, up 39%. 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 109 could be 109 new businesses — or 117 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 cannot tell a solo house cleaner from a commercial janitorial contractor cleaning offices on contract — they are one industry to Census. Most of the count is sole proprietors, but it still can't tell you whether a county's cleaners do homes or offices, so a high count doesn't mean residential demand is covered.
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.
Fayette 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 388 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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