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Home repair companies in Salem city, VA
How Salem city, VA 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 37 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,628 of 2,057 scored counties
#80 of 92 scored counties in Virginia
- Listings
- 17
- 4 chain locations (24%)
- Official establishments
- 21
- −4.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $28.8M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,813 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.7M
- 30% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 16.6
- 34% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 25,816
- +1.7% since 2020
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What this means
For home repair companies, Salem city has a Groundwork market score of 37 (lower middle): #1,628 of 2,057 scored counties and #80 of 92 scored counties in Virginia. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Salem city comes to about $28.8M a year: $2,813 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. Spread across 17 home repair companies, that is $1.7M per company, 30% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
Salem city has 17 home repair companies on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 24% of them, against 4% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 16.6, 34% above the U.S. rate of 12.4.
In 2023, official counts showed 21 businesses with payroll in Salem city classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors, down 4.5% from 2019. That is one for every 488 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Salem city from 2020 to 2025 at +1.7%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Salem 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 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 | Salem city | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 16.6 | 11.4 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.7M | $2.9M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 488 | 654 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −4.5% | +4.2% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.7% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,813 | $3,295 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $66,725 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 37 | 74 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 22 → 21−4.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 387
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $24.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 174 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 12The 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 Salem 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 Salem city
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 25,816+1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 10,256
- Median age
- 41.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 63%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 15 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 1,765
- Median household income
- $66,725+16.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $96,247
- Median home value
- $258,600
- Jobs located here
- 21,974
- Daytime population
- 36,320Residents 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Arlington County, VA | 90 | 34 | 3.0 | $13.3M | +2.1% | #3 of 2,057 |
| 2Alexandria city, VA | 87 | 44 | 5.8 | $6.4M | +1.0% | #6 of 2,057 |
| 3Falls Church city, VA | 87 | 6 | 9.6 | $4.4M | +3.3% | #7 of 2,057 |
| 4Albemarle County, VA | 86 | 39 | 8.5 | $4.1M | +5.1% | #14 of 2,057 |
| 5Suffolk city, VA | 86 | 30 | 7.9 | $4M | +10.4% | #15 of 2,057 |
| 6Caroline County, VA | 85 | 8 | 6.7 | $4.6M | +11.3% | #17 of 2,057 |
| 7James City County, VA | 85 | 32 | 10.0 | $3.5M | +6.2% | #19 of 2,057 |
| 8Prince George County, VA | 83 | 8 | 6.2 | $4.9M | +2.0% | #24 of 2,057 |
| 9Isle of Wight County, VA | 81 | 15 | 9.5 | $3.3M | +6.7% | #38 of 2,057 |
| 10Loudoun County, VA | 80 | 189 | 13.2 | $3.5M | +6.4% | #45 of 2,057 |
| 80Salem city, VA | 37 | 17 | 16.6 | $1.7M | +1.7% | #1,628 of 2,057 |
Other business types in Salem city
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many home repair companies are in Salem city, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 17 home repair companies in Salem city. 4 of them (24%) are chain locations. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 21 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023, down 4.5% from 2019.
How much do households in Salem city, VA spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $28.8M a year, or $2,813 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $1.7M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 10,256 households in Salem city and national spending patterns by income.
How does Salem city, VA compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
Salem city has 16.6 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 34% above the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $1.7M, 30% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Salem city would have about 12, against 17 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 488 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. The official count fell 4.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +9.6% for the U.S.
How fast is Salem city, VA growing?
Population estimates put Salem city at 25,816 people in 2025, up 1.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 10,256 households. The median household income in Salem city is $66,725 a year, 17% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 16.7% 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. Salem city scores 37 for home repair companies (lower middle), #1,628 of 2,057 scored counties.
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