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Electricians in Petersburg city, VA
How Petersburg city, VA compares with other counties and the U.S. for electricians: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 21 out of 100: Low
Ranked #1,088 of 1,160 scored counties
#44 of 44 scored counties in Virginia
- Listings
- 5
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $35.3M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,330 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.1M
- 41% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.3
- 32% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 33,734
- +1.0% since 2020
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What this means
For electricians, Petersburg city has a Groundwork market score of 21 (low): #1,088 of 1,160 scored counties and #44 of 44 scored counties in Virginia. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Petersburg city comes to about $35.3M a year: $2,330 per household, 23% below the U.S. average. That is about $7.1M of household spending for each company on map listings, 41% below the U.S. figure of $12M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only electricians.
Petersburg city has 5 electricians on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 1% across the U.S. That is 3.3 per 10,000 households, 32% above the U.S. rate of 2.5.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for electrical contractors in Petersburg city, since they leave out counts under 3. Population estimates show Petersburg city grew 1.0% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Petersburg 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 | Petersburg city | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.3 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| Spending per listing | $7.1M | $14.3M | $12M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,843 | 1,550 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.5% | +9.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.0% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,330 | $3,295 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $50,698 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 21 | 78 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 50 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 Petersburg 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 Petersburg city
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 33,734+1.0% since 2020
- Households
- 15,138
- Median age
- 37.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 39%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.4
- Land area
- 23 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 1,476
- Median household income
- $50,698+31.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $62,592
- Median home value
- $189,000
- Jobs located here
- 12,524
- Daytime population
- 30,623Residents 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 |
| 44Petersburg city, VA | 21 | 5 | 3.3 | $7.1M | +1.0% | #1,088 of 1,160 |
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Questions
How many electricians are in Petersburg city, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 5 electricians in Petersburg city. None of them are chain locations. The listings count electricians. No official count is published for electrical contractors in Petersburg city: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Petersburg city, VA spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $35.3M a year, or $2,330 per household. That is 23% below the U.S. average (an index of 77, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 5 electricians on map listings, it comes to $7.1M 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 15,138 households in Petersburg city and national spending patterns by income.
How does Petersburg city, VA compare with the U.S. for electricians?
Petersburg city has 3.3 electricians per 10,000 households, 32% above the U.S. rate of 2.5. Spending per company is $7.1M, 41% below the U.S. figure of $12M. At the U.S. ratio of electricians to household spending, Petersburg city would have about 3, against 5 on map listings.
How fast is Petersburg city, VA growing?
Population estimates put Petersburg city at 33,734 people in 2025, up 1.0% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 15,138 households. Median household income in Petersburg city is $50,698, 37% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 31.1%, 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. Petersburg city scores 21 for electricians (low), #1,088 of 1,160 scored counties.
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