Wilkinson County, MS has about as many cleaning and janitorial businesses per resident as the national average.
Wilkinson County, MS has 3 with employees and 25 without — 28 janitorial and cleaning services in total, 35.1 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 32.7 (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
- In Wilkinson County
- 3
- Per 10k residents
- 35.1
- National rate
- 32.7
- Ratio
- About the national rate
Population 7,988. Ranked 3 of 31 Mississippi counties with enough cleaning services data to compare — 1 = fewest per resident.
Source: US Census County Business Patterns ↗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 establishments with paid employees. A solo operator with no payroll — the most likely competitor for most of these businesses — is invisible to it, in every county, including this one.
Wilkinson 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 3 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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