Metro fact page
Pest control contractors in Merced, CA
The Merced, CA metro area has 13 pest control contractors, or 0.45 per 10,000 residents.
What pest control work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national pest control page. California publishes no business-level licence source for pest control, so this page shows no licensed share; the California page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Pest control contractors in this metro
- 13
- Per 10,000 residents
- 0.45 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 2
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in California. No pest control record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file. Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- Not published for this trade
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 13 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 7.14% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 291,920, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about pest control in Merced
By record count, pest control is the tenth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Merced, behind cleaning and ahead of pool. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Merced.
Per resident, Merced carries far fewer pest control records than California as a whole.
The independent share of Merced's pest control records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
California publishes no business-level licence source for pest control that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Merced is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no pest control record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for pest control in Merced, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.
No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to pest control cleanly enough to print, so Merced carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
No Merced pest control record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.
No Merced pest control record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
More pest control records first appeared in Merced over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.
No city inside Merced differs from the metro enough on pest control to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.
Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a pest control page for, Merced is 18th of 19 by records per resident, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a pest control page for rather than every metro area in California.
Ordered by pest control records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a pest control page for, the hubs either side of Merced are Trenton-Princeton above it and Cedar Rapids below it.
Pest control contractors, A to Z
12 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- Advanced IPMMerced, CAListed in open place data
- Atwater Pest Control ExpertsAtwater, CAListed in open place data
- Bull's Eye Pest ControlSan Diego, CAListed in open place data
- Castech Pest ServiceMerced, CAListed in open place data
- Crusader Termite & Pest ControlDos Palos, CAListed in open place data
- D & D Pest ControlMerced, CAListed in open place data
- Dairy Valley Pest ControlHilmar, CAListed in open place data
- Dustin Pest ControlMerced, CAListed in open place data
- Gecko Pest & Landscape ManagementMerced, CAListed in open place data
- Katen Pest ControlDos Palos, CAListed in open place data
- Los Banos SprayingLos Banos, CAListed in open place data
- Merced Pest ControlAtwater, CAListed in open place data
Other trades in Merced
- Cleaning 17
- Electrical 27
- Flooring 19
- HVAC 28
- Landscaping 50
- Painting 24
- Plumbing 38
- Roofing 28
- Other home service 281
- All trades in Merced
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Merced, so it is answered on the overview above instead.