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Electricians in Franklin County, ME
How Franklin County, ME compares with other counties and the U.S. for electricians: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 29 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,002 of 1,160 scored counties
#10 of 10 scored counties in Maine
- Listings
- 6
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 18
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $34.4M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,715 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.7M
- 52% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.7
- 88% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 30,824
- +4.6% since 2020
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What this means
For electricians, Franklin County has a Groundwork market score of 29 (lower middle): #1,002 of 1,160 scored counties and #10 of 10 scored counties in Maine. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Franklin County spend about $34.4M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance, or $2,715 per household, 10% below the U.S. average. That is about $5.7M of household spending for each company on map listings, 52% below the U.S. figure of $12M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only electricians.
Franklin County has 6 electricians on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 1% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 4.7, 88% above the U.S. rate of 2.5.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as electrical contractors in Franklin County was 18 in 2023. That is one for every 704 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Franklin County grew 4.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Franklin County compares
The same measures for Maine and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the electricians counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Franklin County | Maine | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.7 | 3.6 | 2.5 |
| Spending per listing | $5.7M | $8.6M | $12M |
| Households per official establishment | 704 | 902 | 1,550 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +13.9% | +9.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.6% | +3.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,715 | $3,054 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $58,675 | $74,733 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 29 | 36 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 14 → 18
- Employees, 2023
- 93
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 60 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as electrical contractors in Franklin County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Franklin County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 30,824+4.6% since 2020
- Households
- 12,675
- Median age
- 44.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,697 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 18
- Median household income
- $58,675+14.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $79,999
- Median home value
- $194,700
- Jobs located here
- 10,591
- Daytime population
- 27,726Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Maine
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Cumberland County, ME | 50 | 51 | 3.9 | $9M | +4.5% | #584 of 1,160 |
| 2Penobscot County, ME | 47 | 20 | 3.1 | $9.4M | +3.8% | #657 of 1,160 |
| 3Aroostook County, ME | 46 | 8 | 2.7 | $9.9M | −0.7% | #674 of 1,160 |
| 4Androscoggin County, ME | 44 | 16 | 3.4 | $8.4M | +4.8% | #734 of 1,160 |
| 5York County, ME | 42 | 40 | 4.4 | $7.4M | +4.8% | #775 of 1,160 |
| 6Oxford County, ME | 42 | 9 | 3.7 | $7.4M | +4.2% | #776 of 1,160 |
| 7Kennebec County, ME | 41 | 21 | 3.9 | $7.5M | +3.5% | #803 of 1,160 |
| 8Sagadahoc County, ME | 34 | 11 | 6.7 | $4.7M | +3.4% | #935 of 1,160 |
| 9Hancock County, ME | 31 | 14 | 5.5 | $5.4M | +3.0% | #979 of 1,160 |
| 10Franklin County, ME | 29 | 6 | 4.7 | $5.7M | +4.6% | #1,002 of 1,160 |
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Questions
How many electricians are in Franklin County, ME?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 6 electricians in Franklin County. None of them are chain locations. The listings count electricians. Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as electrical contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Franklin County, ME spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $34.4M a year, or $2,715 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 electricians on map listings, it comes to $5.7M per company. That spending covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, which electricians share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 12,675 households in Franklin County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Franklin County, ME compare with the U.S. for electricians?
Franklin County has 4.7 electricians per 10,000 households, 88% above the U.S. rate of 2.5. Spending per company is $5.7M, 52% below the U.S. figure of $12M. At the U.S. ratio of electricians to household spending, Franklin County would have about 3, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 704 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S.
How fast is Franklin County, ME growing?
Population estimates put Franklin County at 30,824 people in 2025, up 4.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 12,675 households. Median household income in Franklin County is $58,675, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 14.1%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Franklin County scores 29 for electricians (lower middle), #1,002 of 1,160 scored counties.
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