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Home-service contractors in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA

The Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro area has 2,010 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 41.72 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,138 records and 56.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pest control, with 28.

Against California’s own rate per resident for each trade, Santa Rosa-Petaluma carries more painting, landscaping, electrical contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing, pest control contractors than the state average.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Santa Rosa-Petaluma's largest trades: it is 2nd of 19 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 4th of 19 for landscaping, inside the top quarter; and it is 3rd 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 Santa Rosa-Petaluma

Home-service contractors in this metro
2,010
Per 10,000 residents
41.72 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
51
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
3
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,956 independent, 24 franchise brand, 21 corporate owned, 9 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
1,745
Universe quality
0.59% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.69% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 481,812, 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 Santa Rosa-Petaluma

Other home service is Santa Rosa-Petaluma'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, Santa Rosa-Petaluma's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Santa Rosa-Petaluma. The smallest of them here is pest control.

Santa Rosa-Petaluma's three smallest trades are pest control, pool and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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, Santa Rosa-Petaluma carries more home-service records than California as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Painting takes a larger share of Santa Rosa-Petaluma than of California, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Plumbing is thinner in Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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 Santa Rosa-Petaluma's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

Of the Santa Rosa-Petaluma trades with a measured licensed share, plumbing 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 Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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 Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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, plumbing and roofing in Santa Rosa-Petaluma. Of those, HVAC pays the most and roofing the least.

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

Electrical carries Santa Rosa-Petaluma's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,080 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 107 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, plumbing and roofing follow it.

Santa Rosa-Petaluma's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in roofing.

Within Santa Rosa-Petaluma, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Santa Rosa-Petaluma's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Plumbing holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Cleaning is the Santa Rosa-Petaluma trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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.

No city inside Santa Rosa-Petaluma differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.

Santa Rosa-Petaluma, 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 Santa Rosa-Petaluma on this site are Springfield above it and Visalia below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Santa Rosa-Petaluma's neighbours are Santa Cruz-Watsonville and Akron. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Santa Rosa-Petaluma

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning992.05Not published
Electrical1072.2228.0%$37.20
Flooring1152.3912.2%
HVAC941.9522.3%$38.23
Landscaping1553.2215.5%
Painting911.8926.4%
Pest control280.58Not published
Plumbing861.7834.9%$31.11
Pool340.7114.7%
Roofing631.3130.2%$30.78
Other home service1,13823.62Not 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.

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