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Home-service contractors in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA

The Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro area has 3,315 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 39.96 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,935 records and 58.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pest control, with 76.

Against California’s own rate per resident for each trade, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura carries more pool, pest control, landscaping contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's largest trades: it is 3rd of 19 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 5th of 19 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 4th of 19 for flooring, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in California.

The facts for Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura

Home-service contractors in this metro
3,315
Per 10,000 residents
39.96 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
109
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
11
Independent, franchise, corporate
3,217 independent, 24 franchise brand, 57 corporate owned, 17 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
2,167
Universe quality
0.89% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.75% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 829,590, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura

Other home service is Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura'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, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. The smallest of them here is pest control.

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's three smallest trades are pest control, painting and pool. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura carries more home-service records than California as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Against California's own mix, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Painting is thinner in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura than across California, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and flooring are Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

Of the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura trades with a measured licensed share, electrical links to an active state licence most often and flooring least often. That spread measures how well two files join here, not whether either row's businesses hold a licence.

More trade-covering licences lapsed in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

Almost every Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura record sits inside the state whose licence file its share is computed from, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, electrical, roofing and plumbing in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. Of those, HVAC pays the most and plumbing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Plumbing carries Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,230 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 160 plumbing 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, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Of the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and painting the least.

Almost none of Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Roofing holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Cleaning is the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pest control the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Thousand Oaks, Camarillo and Moorpark. Each of them carries one trade.

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA sits inside California 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura on this site are Cape Coral-Fort Myers above it and Boise City below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's neighbours are Anchorage and Canton-Massillon. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning1651.99Not published
Electrical1371.6529.2%$31.17
Flooring1932.335.7%
HVAC1591.9218.9%$33.52
Landscaping2272.7415.4%
Painting861.0419.8%
Pest control760.92Not published
Plumbing1601.9323.8%$29.95
Pool881.069.1%
Roofing891.0721.3%$30.21
Other home service1,93523.32Not 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Thousand Oaksother home service332
Camarilloother home service215
Moorparkother home service85

The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.

Home-service contractors in California carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.