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Home-service contractors in Stockton-Lodi, CA

The Stockton-Lodi, CA metro area has 1,686 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 21.05 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 913 records and 54.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pest control, with 30.

No trade in Stockton-Lodi runs meaningfully ahead of California’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer plumbing, painting, pest control contractors than the state average.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Stockton-Lodi's largest trades: it is 16th of 19 for other home service, in the bottom quarter; it is 14th of 19 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 16th of 19 for HVAC, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in California.

The facts for Stockton-Lodi

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,686
Per 10,000 residents
21.05 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
48
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
3
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,606 independent, 17 franchise brand, 52 corporate owned, 11 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
1,223
Universe quality
0.76% of source records merged as duplicates, 3.50% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 800,965, 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 Stockton-Lodi

Other home service is Stockton-Lodi'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, Stockton-Lodi's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Stockton-Lodi. The smallest of them here is pest control.

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

Every trade in Stockton-Lodi 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, Stockton-Lodi carries far fewer home-service records than California as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Roofing takes a larger share of Stockton-Lodi than of California, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Plumbing is thinner in Stockton-Lodi 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 HVAC are Stockton-Lodi's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

Of the Stockton-Lodi 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 Stockton-Lodi 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 Stockton-Lodi 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 Stockton-Lodi. 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 Stockton-Lodi, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Stockton-Lodi's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,180 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 70 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 Stockton-Lodi records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.

Within Stockton-Lodi, electrical and pest control are the most independently held trades and other home service the least.

Almost none of Stockton-Lodi'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 Stockton-Lodi 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 Stockton-Lodi 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.

One city inside Stockton-Lodi, Tracy, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Stockton-Lodi, 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 Stockton-Lodi on this site are Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek above it and Greensboro-High Point below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Stockton-Lodi's neighbours are Urban Honolulu and Visalia. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Stockton-Lodi

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning991.24Not published
Electrical700.8725.7%$36.74
Flooring941.175.3%
HVAC1021.2725.5%$36.40
Landscaping1401.7511.4%
Painting520.6521.2%
Pest control300.37Not published
Plumbing831.0412.0%$30.24
Pool350.445.7%
Roofing680.8513.2%$29.78
Other home service91311.40Not 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 Stockton-Lodi with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Tracyother home service98

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.