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Electricians in Charlottesville city, VA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for electricians in Charlottesville city, VA, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 13
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $59.9M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $3,024 a household
- Spending per listing
- $59.9M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.5
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 44,388
- −4.4% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 electrician in Charlottesville city. That is 0.5 per 10,000 households.
Households in Charlottesville city spend about $59.9M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance, or $3,024 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That works out to $59.9M per company. That spending covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, which electricians share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as electrical contractors in Charlottesville city in 2023. That is one for every 1,524 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Charlottesville city declined 4.4% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 electrician on map listings, Charlottesville city isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Charlottesville city compares
The same measures for Virginia 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 | Charlottesville city | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| Spending per listing | $59.9M | $14.3M | $12M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,524 | 1,843 | 1,550 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.5% | +9.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −4.4% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $3,024 | $3,295 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $74,824 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 78 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 12 → 13
- Employees, 2023
- 260
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $17.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The 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 Charlottesville city, 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 Charlottesville city
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 44,388−4.4% since 2020
- Households
- 19,815
- Median age
- 35.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 44%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.5
- Land area
- 10 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4,435
- Median household income
- $74,824+25.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $115,430
- Median home value
- $486,700
- Jobs located here
- 37,763
- Daytime population
- 63,939Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Stafford County, VA | 90 | 9 | 1.7 | $23M | +8.3% | #6 of 1,160 |
| 2Arlington County, VA | 89 | 6 | 0.5 | $75.1M | +2.1% | #8 of 1,160 |
| 3Alexandria city, VA | 86 | 7 | 0.9 | $40.4M | +1.0% | #15 of 1,160 |
| 4Loudoun County, VA | 85 | 30 | 2.1 | $21.8M | +6.4% | #22 of 1,160 |
| 5Suffolk city, VA | 85 | 7 | 1.8 | $17M | +10.4% | #26 of 1,160 |
| 6Richmond city, VA | 83 | 11 | 1.1 | $26.5M | +4.6% | #28 of 1,160 |
| 7Fairfax County, VA | 83 | 83 | 2.0 | $21M | +1.7% | #31 of 1,160 |
| 8Albemarle County, VA | 83 | 8 | 1.7 | $19.9M | +5.1% | #32 of 1,160 |
| 9York County, VA | 79 | 7 | 2.6 | $13.5M | +1.6% | #58 of 1,160 |
| 10Chesterfield County, VA | 77 | 34 | 2.4 | $13.9M | +8.7% | #73 of 1,160 |
| Charlottesville city, VA | Not scored | 1 | 0.5 | $59.9M | −4.4% |
Other business types in Charlottesville city
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Questions
How many electricians are in Charlottesville city, VA?
There is 1 electrician on map listings in Charlottesville city as of September 2026. The listings count electricians. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as electrical contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Charlottesville city, VA spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $59.9M a year, or $3,024 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 100, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 electrician on map listings, it comes to $59.9M per company. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only electricians. It is estimated from the incomes of the 19,815 households in Charlottesville city and national spending patterns by income.
How does Charlottesville city, VA compare with the U.S. for electricians?
Charlottesville city has 1 electrician on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of electricians to household spending, Charlottesville city would have about 5, against 1 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,524 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S.
How fast is Charlottesville city, VA growing?
Population estimates put Charlottesville city at 44,388 people in 2025, down 4.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 19,815 households. The median household income in Charlottesville city is $74,824 a year, 7% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 25.8% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Charlottesville city has no market score for electricians: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
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