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House cleaning businesses in the Augusta-Waterville, ME area
How the Augusta-Waterville, ME area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for house cleaning businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 4.
- Listings
- 4
- 1 chain location (25%)
- Official establishments
- 23
- −11.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $64.3M
- On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,184 a household
- Spending per listing
- $16.1M
- 2.5 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.7
- 68% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 129,067
- +3.5% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on lawn care, cleaning and other household services in the Augusta-Waterville area comes to about $64.3M a year: $1,184 per household, 16% below the U.S. average. That works out to $16.1M per business, 2.5 times the U.S. figure of $6.4M. The spending figure covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, not only house cleaning businesses.
The Augusta-Waterville area has 4 house cleaning businesses on map listings as of September 2026. Per 10,000 households, that is 0.7, 68% below the U.S. rate of 2.2.
In 2023, official counts showed 23 businesses with payroll in the Augusta-Waterville area classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services, down 11.5% from 2019. That is one for every 2,361 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in the Augusta-Waterville area from 2020 to 2025 at +3.5%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). With 4 house cleaning businesses on map listings, the Augusta-Waterville area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Augusta-Waterville area compares
The same measures for Maine and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all lawn care, cleaning and other household services by the house cleaning businesses 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 | Augusta-Waterville area | Maine | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 |
| Spending per listing | $16.1M | $6.7M | $6.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,361 | 1,330 | 1,735 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −11.5% | +14.3% | +6.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.5% | +3.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services | $1,184 | $1,246 | $1,414 |
| Median household income | $69,077 | $74,733 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 45 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 23−11.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 186
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 41 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10The 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 janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Augusta-Waterville area, 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 the Augusta-Waterville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 129,067+3.5% since 2020
- Households
- 54,312
- Median age
- 43.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 868 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 146
- Median household income
- $69,077+24.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $88,742
- Median home value
- $238,200
- Jobs located here
- 65,677
- Daytime population
- 134,017Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Questions
How many house cleaning businesses are in the Augusta-Waterville, ME area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 4 house cleaning businesses in the Augusta-Waterville area. The listings count house cleaners and carpet cleaners. Official counts show 23 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in 2023, down 11.5% from 2019.
How much do households in the Augusta-Waterville, ME area spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?
About $64.3M a year, or $1,184 per household. That is 16% below the U.S. average (an index of 84, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 4 house cleaning businesses on map listings, it comes to $16.1M per business. That spending covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, which house cleaning businesses share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 54,312 households in the Augusta-Waterville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Augusta-Waterville, ME area compare with the U.S. for house cleaning businesses?
The Augusta-Waterville area has 0.7 house cleaning businesses per 10,000 households, 68% below the U.S. rate of 2.2. Spending per business is $16.1M, 2.5 times the U.S. figure of $6.4M. At the U.S. ratio of house cleaning businesses to household spending, the Augusta-Waterville area would have about 10, against 4 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,361 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. The official count fell 11.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.6% for the U.S.
How fast is the Augusta-Waterville, ME area growing?
Population estimates put the Augusta-Waterville area at 129,067 people in 2025, up 3.5% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 54,312 households. The median household income in the Augusta-Waterville area is $69,077 a year, 14% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 24.8% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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. The Augusta-Waterville area has no market score for house cleaning businesses: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 4.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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