Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Montgomery, AL
The Montgomery, AL metro area has 1,151 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 29.86 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 586 records and 50.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 10.
Against Alabama’s own rate per resident for each trade, Montgomery carries more cleaning, flooring, pest control contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 6 Alabama metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Montgomery's largest trades: it is 5th of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is 5th 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 Montgomery
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,151
- Per 10,000 residents
- 29.86 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 23
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 1
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,085 independent, 16 franchise brand, 37 corporate owned, 13 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.51% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.96% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 385,480, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Montgomery
Other home service is Montgomery'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, Montgomery'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 Montgomery. The smallest of them here is pool.
Montgomery's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Montgomery 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, Montgomery sits close to the Alabama rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Against Alabama's own mix, Montgomery is heaviest in cleaning: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Plumbing is thinner in Montgomery 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 Montgomery's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.
No Montgomery 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 Montgomery, 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 Montgomery. 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 Montgomery, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Montgomery's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 760 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 55 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. HVAC and plumbing follow it.
Of the Montgomery records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Montgomery, electrical and roofing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Montgomery'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.
Other home service is the Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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.
One city inside Montgomery, Prattville, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Montgomery, 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 Montgomery on this site are Fayetteville above it and Spartanburg below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Montgomery's neighbours are Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers and Buffalo-Cheektowaga. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Montgomery
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 70 | 1.82 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 55 | 1.43 | Not published | $23.99 |
| Flooring | 61 | 1.58 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 83 | 2.15 | Not published | $23.40 |
| Landscaping | 85 | 2.21 | Not published | |
| Painting | 30 | 0.78 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 48 | 1.25 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 51 | 1.32 | Not published | $27.87 |
| Pool | 10 | 0.26 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 72 | 1.87 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 586 | 15.20 | 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 Montgomery with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Prattville | other home service | 78 |
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.