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House cleaning businesses in the Glens Falls, NY metro area
How the Glens Falls, NY metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for house cleaning businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 56 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #121 of 375 scored metro areas
#6 of 12 scored metro areas based in New York
- Listings
- 9
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 15
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $67.5M
- On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,235 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.5M
- 17% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.6
- 27% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 124,373
- −1.9% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Glens Falls metro area spend about $67.5M a year on lawn care, cleaning and other household services, or $1,235 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. That is about $7.5M of household spending for each business on map listings, 17% above 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 Glens Falls metro area has 9 house cleaning businesses on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 8% across the U.S. That is 1.6 per 10,000 households, 27% below the U.S. rate of 2.2.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Glens Falls metro area was 15 in 2023. That is one for every 3,640 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $65K has gone to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Glens Falls metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Glens Falls metro area declined 1.9%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Glens Falls metro area scores 56 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for house cleaning businesses, ranking #121 of 375 scored metro areas and #6 of 12 scored metro areas based in New York.
How the Glens Falls metro area compares
The same measures for New York 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 | Glens Falls metro area | New York | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.2 |
| Spending per listing | $7.5M | $8.2M | $6.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 3,640 | 1,914 | 1,735 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.8% | +6.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.9% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services | $1,235 | $1,372 | $1,414 |
| Median household income | $75,836 | $85,974 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 56 | 59 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 15
- Employees, 2023
- 291
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $11M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 90 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 11The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $65K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Glens Falls metro 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 Glens Falls metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 124,373−1.9% since 2020
- Households
- 54,602
- Median age
- 46.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 1,698 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 74
- Median household income
- $75,836+27.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $98,103
- Median home value
- $232,500
- Jobs located here
- 49,038
- Daytime population
- 117,382Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in New York
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kingston, NY | 60 | 13 | 1.8 | $7.7M | +1.1% | #97 of 375 |
| 2Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY | 58 | 50 | 2.0 | $7.3M | +3.0% | #107 of 375 |
| 3New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 58 | 1,521 | 2.1 | $7.1M | +0.6% | #108 of 375 |
| 4Utica-Rome, NY | 57 | 14 | 1.2 | $10.2M | −2.0% | #111 of 375 |
| 5Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | 57 | 68 | 1.8 | $7.6M | +1.9% | #116 of 375 |
| 6Glens Falls, NY | 56 | 9 | 1.6 | $7.5M | −1.9% | #121 of 375 |
| 7Syracuse, NY | 53 | 30 | 1.1 | $11.3M | −1.3% | #146 of 375 |
| 8Rochester, NY | 50 | 47 | 1.1 | $11.9M | −0.7% | #177 of 375 |
| 9Watertown-Fort Drum, NY | 50 | 7 | 1.5 | $7.9M | −3.9% | #179 of 375 |
| 10Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY | 48 | 61 | 1.2 | $10.1M | −0.8% | #198 of 375 |
Other business types in the Glens Falls metro area
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 house cleaning businesses are in the Glens Falls, NY metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 9 house cleaning businesses in the Glens Falls metro area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count house cleaners and carpet cleaners. Official counts show 15 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in 2023.
How much do households in the Glens Falls, NY metro area spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?
About $67.5M a year, or $1,235 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 house cleaning businesses on map listings, it comes to $7.5M 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 54,602 households in the Glens Falls metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Glens Falls, NY metro area compare with the U.S. for house cleaning businesses?
The Glens Falls metro area has 1.6 house cleaning businesses per 10,000 households, 27% below the U.S. rate of 2.2. Spending per business is $7.5M, 17% above the U.S. figure of $6.4M. At the U.S. ratio of house cleaning businesses to household spending, the Glens Falls metro area would have about 11, against 9 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 3,640 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S.
How fast is the Glens Falls, NY metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Glens Falls metro area at 124,373 people in 2025, down 1.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 54,602 households. The median household income in the Glens Falls metro area is $75,836 a year, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.7% 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. The Glens Falls metro area scores 56 for house cleaning businesses (upper middle), #121 of 375 scored metro areas.
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