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House cleaning businesses in the Beckley, WV metro area

How the Beckley, WV 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

Not scored

The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.

Listings
2
1 chain location (50%)
Official establishments
17
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$55.8M
On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,241 a household
Spending per listing
$27.9M
Too few listings to compare
Listings per 10k households
0.4
Too few listings to compare
Population, 2025
109,940
−4.3% since 2020

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What this means

Household spending on lawn care, cleaning and other household services in the Beckley metro area comes to about $55.8M a year: $1,241 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. Spread across 2 house cleaning businesses, that is $27.9M per business. The spending figure covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, not only house cleaning businesses.

The Beckley metro area has 2 house cleaning businesses on map listings as of September 2026. That is 0.4 per 10,000 households.

Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Beckley metro area in 2023. That is one for every 2,644 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S.

Population estimates put the population change in the Beckley metro area from 2020 to 2025 at −4.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 2 house cleaning businesses on map listings, the Beckley metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

How the Beckley metro area compares

The same measures for West Virginia 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.

House cleaning in Beckley, WV metro area compared with West Virginia and the U.S.
MeasureBeckley metro areaWest VirginiaU.S.
Listings per 10k households0.40.72.2
Spending per listing$27.9M$19.4M$6.4M
Households per official establishment2,6443,3891,735
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+7.0%+6.6%
Population growth, 2020–2025−4.3%−1.4%+3.1%
Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services$1,241$1,335$1,414
Median household income$52,620$59,608$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored68

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
17
Employees, 2023
231
Annual payroll, 2023
$3.8M
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
21 chain location
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
9The 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 Beckley 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 Beckley metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
109,940−4.3% since 2020
Households
44,952
Median age
43.7
Homes lived in by their owners
76%
Vehicles per household
1.7
Land area
1,267 sq. mi.
People per square mile
89
Median household income
$52,620+22.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$69,721
Median home value
$129,600
Jobs located here
43,639
Daytime population
115,613Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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House cleaning across West Virginia

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The highest-scoring metro areas in West Virginia for house cleaning businesses, numbered among those based in West Virginia (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Beckley metro area marked.

Top metro areas in West Virginia

Metro areas in West Virginia ranked for house cleaning businesses by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV79201.7$8.8M+7.1%#16 of 375
1Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH67151.0$13.2M−2.6%#59 of 375
2Parkersburg-Vienna, WV6651.3$10M−2.3%#66 of 375
3Charleston, WV65111.3$10.6M−4.7%#69 of 375
Winchester, VA-WV60152.7$5.8M+6.5%#103 of 375
4Wheeling, WV-OH5681.4$8.8M−3.6%#119 of 375
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV547483.2$6.2M+3.3%#142 of 375
5Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH5181.6$7.4M−3.6%#171 of 375
Beckley, WVNot scored20.4$27.9M−4.3%

Other business types in the Beckley metro area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many house cleaning businesses are in the Beckley, WV metro area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 2 house cleaning businesses in the Beckley metro area. The listings count house cleaners and carpet cleaners. Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in 2023.

How much do households in the Beckley, WV metro area spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?

About $55.8M a year, or $1,241 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 house cleaning businesses on map listings, it comes to $27.9M 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 44,952 households in the Beckley metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Beckley, WV metro area compare with the U.S. for house cleaning businesses?

The Beckley metro area has 2 house cleaning businesses on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of house cleaning businesses to household spending, the Beckley metro area would have about 9, against 2 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,644 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S.

How fast is the Beckley, WV metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Beckley metro area at 109,940 people in 2025, down 4.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 44,952 households. The median household income in the Beckley metro area is $52,620 a year, 35% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 22.9% 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 Beckley metro area has no market score for house cleaning businesses: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.

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