Where your competition is in Delaware
The largest concentrations of house cleaning companies in our Delaware data are in Newark, Dover, Wilmington, Felton, Smyrna, New Castle, Rehoboth Beach and Delmar. Competition for the map pack is heaviest there, and so is the reward: the same review count that dominates a small town is invisible in Newark.
The map pack in Delaware
Google shows three businesses in the map pack for a search like "cleaning company near me" in Newark. In Delaware the shops that hold those spots usually sit near the 90th percentile, 133 reviews, not the median. 14.5% of Delaware house cleaning companies have passed 100 reviews; the other 85.5% are competing for whatever is left below the fold.
The website gap in Delaware
Website presence in Delaware: 62.3% of house cleaning companies link one, 37.7% do not. The national figure is 37.3% without. Google and the AI answer engines both use the site to confirm what you do and where, so a missing site costs more than the leads it would have produced on its own.
How Delaware compares
Of the 51 states in our data, Delaware ranks 43rd for the number of house cleaning companies, 23rd for median review count, and 27th for the share with no website. The review bar sits in the middle of the pack.
| State | Listed | Median reviews | No site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 69 | 5 | 37.7% |
| Alabama | 258 | 2 | 48.4% |
| District of Columbia | 25 | 36 | 20% |
| Florida | 1,628 | 13 | 29.5% |
| Georgia | 666 | 7 | 36% |
| Kentucky | 156 | 3 | 46.2% |
| Maryland | 547 | 8 | 32.5% |
| Mississippi | 114 | 2 | 57% |
| North Carolina | 751 | 8 | 40.1% |
What to do first in Delaware
- Put up a real website if you are in the 37.7% without one. Service pages, city pages for Newark, Dover, Wilmington, tap-to-call on every screen.
- Set a review velocity. One review per job day, asked at the door, moves a 5-review shop past the Delaware 75th percentile (38) within a year. The guides have the scripts.
- Finish the Google profile: primary category, every service you offer, real job photos, and hours that match reality. It is free and it is where Delaware customers decide.
- Follow up every lead within five minutes. Speed to lead beats ad spend in a trade where the customer is collecting three quotes. The calculator shows what slow replies cost.
- Then, and only then, spend on ads. Pointed at a profile with 5 reviews and no website, ads pay for your competitor's education. Pointed at a finished profile, they work.
The full national picture, with percentiles, ratings and hours, is in the benchmark report. The method is on the about page.