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Home repair companies in Lamar County, GA
How Lamar County, GA compares with other counties and the U.S. for home repair companies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 67 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #293 of 2,057 scored counties
#17 of 106 scored counties in Georgia
- Listings
- 6
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $19.6M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,742 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.3M
- 34% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.4
- 32% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 20,941
- +12.9% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Lamar County comes to about $19.6M a year: $2,742 per household, 9% below the U.S. average. Spread across 6 home repair companies, that is $3.3M per company, 34% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
Lamar County has 6 home repair companies on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 4% across the U.S. That comes to 8.4 for every 10,000 households, 32% below the U.S. rate of 12.4.
Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Lamar County in 2023. That is one for every 446 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Lamar County grew 12.9%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Lamar County scores 67 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for home repair companies, ranking #293 of 2,057 scored counties and #17 of 106 scored counties in Georgia. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Lamar County compares
The same measures for Georgia and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the home repair companies 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 | Lamar County | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.4 | 12.7 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $3.3M | $2.3M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 446 | 637 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +11.9% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +12.9% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,742 | $2,975 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $67,062 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 67 | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 10 → 16
- Employees, 2023
- 68
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.4M
- 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
- 8The 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 plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Lamar 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 Lamar County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 20,941+12.9% since 2020
- Households
- 7,133
- Median age
- 40.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 184 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 107
- Median household income
- $67,062+49.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $86,227
- Median home value
- $216,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,366
- Daytime population
- 15,409Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Georgia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Fulton County, GA | 87 | 408 | 8.8 | $3.8M | +2.7% | #9 of 2,057 |
| 2Camden County, GA | 87 | 17 | 7.8 | $3.6M | +9.5% | #11 of 2,057 |
| 3Harris County, GA | 86 | 10 | 7.7 | $4.3M | +6.8% | #13 of 2,057 |
| 4Murray County, GA | 81 | 7 | 4.6 | $5.8M | +4.0% | #33 of 2,057 |
| 5DeKalb County, GA | 81 | 229 | 8.0 | $4M | +1.3% | #34 of 2,057 |
| 6Houston County, GA | 81 | 65 | 10.2 | $2.8M | +8.5% | #40 of 2,057 |
| 7Greene County, GA | 79 | 6 | 7.3 | $4.4M | +12.3% | #52 of 2,057 |
| 8Liberty County, GA | 75 | 20 | 8.3 | $3M | +7.6% | #103 of 2,057 |
| 9Monroe County, GA | 75 | 12 | 11.4 | $2.7M | +14.1% | #107 of 2,057 |
| 10Bryan County, GA | 75 | 23 | 13.9 | $2.4M | +15.6% | #111 of 2,057 |
| 17Lamar County, GA | 67 | 6 | 8.4 | $3.3M | +12.9% | #293 of 2,057 |
Other business types in Lamar County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in Lamar County, GA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 6 home repair companies in Lamar County. None of them are chain locations. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Lamar County, GA spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $19.6M a year, or $2,742 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $3.3M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 7,133 households in Lamar County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Lamar County, GA compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
Lamar County has 8.4 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 32% below the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $3.3M, 34% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Lamar County would have about 8, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 446 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
How fast is Lamar County, GA growing?
Population estimates put Lamar County at 20,941 people in 2025, up 12.9% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 7,133 households. The median household income in Lamar County is $67,062 a year, 17% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 49.5% 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. Lamar County scores 67 for home repair companies (upper middle), #293 of 2,057 scored counties.
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