Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
The Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro area has 17,108 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 33.74 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 9,127 records and 53.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is roofing, with 512.
Against Arizona’s own rate per resident for each trade, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler carries more pool contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 3 Arizona metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's largest trades: it is 2nd of 3 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 3 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 3 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Arizona.
The facts for Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 17,108
- Per 10,000 residents
- 33.74 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 572
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 36
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 16,542 independent, 173 franchise brand, 285 corporate owned, 108 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.98% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.67% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 5,070,110, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
Other home service is Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler'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, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler. The smallest of them here is roofing.
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's three smallest trades are roofing, pool and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler 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, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler sits close to the Arizona rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler against Arizona. Pool leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Even Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's thinnest trade against Arizona, roofing, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's three densest trades, and roofing its thinnest.
No Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler 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 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 17,240 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 622 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, HVAC and roofing follow it.
Of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, landscaping and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler'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 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Plumbing added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Scottsdale, Goodyear, Avondale, Buckeye and Casa Grande, and 2 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ sits inside Arizona 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 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler on this site are Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach above it and Boston-Cambridge-Newton below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's neighbours are Gainesville and Wichita. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 841 | 1.66 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 622 | 1.23 | Not published | $29.43 |
| Flooring | 992 | 1.96 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 1,192 | 2.35 | Not published | $29.41 |
| Landscaping | 1,201 | 2.37 | Not published | |
| Painting | 605 | 1.19 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 534 | 1.05 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 954 | 1.88 | Not published | $30.65 |
| Pool | 528 | 1.04 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 512 | 1.01 | Not published | $22.96 |
| Other home service | 9,127 | 18.00 | Not published |
Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Roofers. 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 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Scottsdale | other home service | 862 |
| Goodyear | other home service | 134 |
| Avondale | other home service | 89 |
| Buckeye | other home service | 80 |
| Casa Grande | other home service | 69 |
| Peoria | HVAC | 66 |
| Maricopa | other home service | 65 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Arizona carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.