Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Huntsville, AL
The Huntsville, AL metro area has 1,682 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 31.90 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 911 records and 54.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 13.
Against Alabama’s own rate per resident for each trade, Huntsville carries more painting, landscaping, cleaning contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Alabama metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Huntsville's largest trades: it is 2nd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 4th of 6 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Alabama.
The facts for Huntsville
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,682
- Per 10,000 residents
- 31.90 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 42
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 1
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,608 independent, 18 franchise brand, 44 corporate owned, 12 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.65% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.78% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 527,254, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Huntsville
Other home service is Huntsville'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, Huntsville'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 Huntsville. The smallest of them here is pool.
Huntsville's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and electrical. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Huntsville clears the record floor a trade page has to meet, so each has a page of its own. That is a statement about how thick this metro's thinnest trade is.
Per resident, Huntsville carries more home-service records than Alabama as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against Alabama's own mix, Huntsville is heaviest in painting: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Plumbing is thinner in Huntsville than across Alabama, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Huntsville's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Huntsville 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 Huntsville, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing and HVAC in Huntsville. Of those, electrical pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Huntsville, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Huntsville's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,030 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 61 electrical 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. Plumbing and HVAC follow it.
Of the Huntsville records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is pest control.
Within Huntsville, cleaning and roofing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Huntsville's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Painting is the Huntsville 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 Huntsville 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 landscaping lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside Huntsville, the city of Huntsville itself and Madison differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.
Huntsville, 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 Huntsville on this site are Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent above it and Lexington-Fayette below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Huntsville's neighbours are Greenville-Anderson-Greer and Columbia. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Huntsville
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 71 | 1.35 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 61 | 1.16 | Not published | $28.13 |
| Flooring | 64 | 1.21 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 114 | 2.16 | Not published | $24.01 |
| Landscaping | 163 | 3.09 | Not published | |
| Painting | 81 | 1.54 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 47 | 0.89 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 64 | 1.21 | Not published | $27.42 |
| Pool | 13 | 0.25 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 93 | 1.76 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 911 | 17.28 | 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.
All 11 trades here clear the 8-record floor, so no trade URL of this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Cities inside Huntsville with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Huntsville | other home service | 468 |
| Madison | other home service | 81 |
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.