Trenton, NJ · Contractors
Contractors in Trenton, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 256 residential building contractors in the Trenton-Princeton, NJ Metro Area in 2023, employing 757 people with $49.8 million in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
256
132nd most of 387 US metro areas
757
3.0 per business, against 4.4 across all metros
$49.8 million
$65,727 per employee
93%
of businesses, against 91% across all metros
-2.7%
in the number of businesses (263 in 2022)
What the numbers say about Trenton.
- Trenton ranks 132nd of 387 US metro areas by number of residential building contractors.
- Businesses here run smaller than average: 3.0 employees each, against 4.4 across all metros.
- Pay runs below the metro average: $65,727 per employee a year, against $73,514.
- The count fell by 7 businesses since 2022.
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Questions
Contractors in Trenton
How many residential building contractors are there in Trenton?
256 in the Trenton-Princeton, NJ Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 757 people and paid $49.8 million in annual payroll.
Is the Trenton market for contractors growing?
By number of businesses it shrank between 2022 and 2023: from 263 to 256 (-2.7%).
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is residential building contractors, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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