Outdoor Lighting Installation in Durham, North Carolina: fix it yourself, costs & nearby pros
No outdoor lighting installation is listed in Durham yet. Below: how to handle the 1 most common outdoor lighting installation problems yourself, what a pro charges in North Carolina, and pros in nearby cities. Durham's ~120,000 households generate an estimated 870 outdoor lighting installation jobs a year.
Fix it yourself: the 1 most common outdoor lighting installation problems in Durham
Tools, time, the first steps, and exactly when to stop and call a pro.
Outdoor motion sensor light stays on
easy 15–45 min
Steps
Reset it: switch the fixture off at the wall switch for 30 seconds and on again — a brief off-on flick puts many sensor lights into manual-on mode until they are reset.
+5 more steps in the full guide
Stop and call a pro if
the fixture is on a circuit you cannot switch off at the breaker to work safely
Demand in Durham: 120,000 households, ~870 jobs a year
Durham's 120,000 households generate an estimated 870 outdoor lighting installation jobs a year — and no landscaper is listed on HireLocal here yet.
Households
~120,000
Jobs per year
~870
Pros the market supports
~930
Listed on HireLocal
0
listed on HireLocal: 0; pros the market supports: 934; Households: 123318
Demand in Durham: 120,000 households, ~870 jobs a year
Households
123,318
Owner-occupied share
52 %
Jobs per year (outdoor lighting installation)
866
Pros the market supports
934
listed on HireLocal
0
Coverage
0 %
Score
100 / 100
By national ratios Durham supports about 930 full-time landscaper pros — a large market with room for niche specialists, emergency-only operators and franchises alike. Ownership is split — 52 % owner-occupied — so a typical week mixes homeowners with landlords and property managers who buy in volume. The housing stock is close to the national average in age, so demand tracks the national pattern for this trade.
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2019–2023); U.S. BLS OEWS; HireLocal listings. Updated . How we calculate →
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