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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.

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Fix it yourself

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

  1. 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

Full guide

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Pros nearby

Outdoor lighting installation pros near Durham

Quote requests from Durham go to listed pros within ~60 km.

Demand

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
Households123,318
Owner-occupied share52 %
Jobs per year (outdoor lighting installation)866
Pros the market supports934
listed on HireLocal0
Coverage0 %
Score100 / 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.

No landscaper has listed a business in Durham on HireLocal yet, so quote requests from this page are matched to pros in nearby cities. The first pro to list here appears on every landscaper page for Durham.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2019–2023); U.S. BLS OEWS; HireLocal listings. Updated . How we calculate →

Career

Start a landscaper career in Durham

If you are training as a landscaper, Durham is a market to start in: it supports about 930 pros and HireLocal lists 0, so a new listing is visible immediately.

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