Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
The San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro area has 11,299 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.55 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 6,295 records and 55.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 216.
Against California’s own rate per resident for each trade, San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad carries more cleaning, landscaping, pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 19 California metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad's largest trades: it is 5th of 19 for other home service, around the middle; it is 7th of 19 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 3rd of 19 for cleaning, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in California.
The facts for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 11,299
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.55 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 303
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 69
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 10,961 independent, 101 franchise brand, 173 corporate owned, 64 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 7,036
- Universe quality
- 0.66% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.31% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 3,269,973, 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad
Other home service is San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad'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, San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, cleaning and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad. The smallest of them here is pool.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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, San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad sits close to the California rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Cleaning takes a larger share of San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad than of California, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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 cleaning are San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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 electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 8,060 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 567 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pest control holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Cleaning is the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and painting lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Carlsbad, San Marcos, Vista, Encinitas and Santee, and 4 more. Each of them carries one trade.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad on this site are Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater above it and Denver-Aurora-Centennial below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad's neighbours are Lafayette and Boise City. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 719 | 2.20 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 567 | 1.73 | 29.6% | $36.62 |
| Flooring | 610 | 1.87 | 9.5% | |
| HVAC | 486 | 1.49 | 22.0% | $36.00 |
| Landscaping | 830 | 2.54 | 17.8% | |
| Painting | 410 | 1.25 | 24.2% | |
| Pest control | 245 | 0.75 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 590 | 1.80 | 23.4% | $34.86 |
| Pool | 216 | 0.66 | 10.6% | |
| Roofing | 331 | 1.01 | 24.2% | $29.90 |
| Other home service | 6,295 | 19.25 | 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Carlsbad | other home service | 290 |
| San Marcos | other home service | 264 |
| Vista | other home service | 227 |
| Encinitas | other home service | 156 |
| Santee | other home service | 128 |
| National City | other home service | 81 |
| San Diego | pest control | 75 |
| Solana Beach | other home service | 65 |
| Spring Valley | other home service | 52 |
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.