Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
The Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro area has 888 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 35.03 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 524 records and 59.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 4.
Against Alabama’s own rate per resident for each trade, Daphne-Fairhope-Foley carries more landscaping, other home service, flooring contractors than the state average. It carries fewer painting, plumbing, pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Alabama metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is the densest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Alabama.
The facts for Daphne-Fairhope-Foley
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 888
- Per 10,000 residents
- 35.03 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 22
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 835 independent, 25 franchise brand, 23 corporate owned, 5 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.22% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.14% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 253,507, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Daphne-Fairhope-Foley
Other home service is Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. The smallest of them here is pool.
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Daphne-Fairhope-Foley trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.
Per resident, Daphne-Fairhope-Foley carries more home-service records than Alabama as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley against Alabama. Landscaping leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
At the other end, plumbing is far thinner in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley than across Alabama, by the widest margin of any trade in the table.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's three densest trades, and plumbing its thinnest.
No Daphne-Fairhope-Foley trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical and HVAC in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
HVAC carries Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 540 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 70 HVAC records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other. Electrical and plumbing follow it.
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in other home service.
Within Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pest control holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Daphne-Fairhope-Foley records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Daphne-Fairhope-Foley that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Foley, Daphne and Gulf Shores. Each of them carries one trade.
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL sits inside Alabama alone, so the labour market this page counts and the licensing regime that governs it are the same geography.
Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Daphne-Fairhope-Foley on this site are Yakima above it and Prescott Valley-Prescott below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Daphne-Fairhope-Foley's neighbours are Santa Maria-Santa Barbara and Milwaukee-Waukesha. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 31 | 1.22 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 35 | 1.38 | Not published | $24.44 |
| Flooring | 38 | 1.50 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 70 | 2.76 | Not published | $22.54 |
| Landscaping | 84 | 3.31 | Not published | |
| Painting | 13 | 0.51 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 18 | 0.71 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 26 | 1.03 | Not published | $27.44 |
| Pool | 4 | 0.16 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 45 | 1.78 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 524 | 20.67 | Not published |
Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026.
One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Cities inside Daphne-Fairhope-Foley with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Foley | other home service | 57 |
| Daphne | other home service | 55 |
| Gulf Shores | other home service | 55 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Alabama carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.