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Metro overview, all trades

Home-service contractors in Boulder, CO

The Boulder, CO metro area has 1,529 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 46.78 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 924 records and 60.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 6.

Against Colorado’s own rate per resident for each trade, Boulder carries more landscaping, cleaning, electrical contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pest control, roofing contractors than the state average.

Among the 5 Colorado metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Boulder's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is the densest of them for cleaning. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Colorado.

The facts for Boulder

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,529
Per 10,000 residents
46.78 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
32
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
3
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,491 independent, 18 franchise brand, 13 corporate owned, 7 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.90% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.35% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 326,831, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Boulder

Other home service is Boulder's largest trade, and three of every five records this site holds here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.

In order, Boulder's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, cleaning and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Boulder. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

One Boulder trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.

Per resident, Boulder sits close to the Colorado rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

No trade is strongly over-represented in Boulder against Colorado. Landscaping leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

At the other end, roofing is far thinner in Boulder than across Colorado, by the widest margin of any trade in the table.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and cleaning are Boulder's three densest trades, and roofing its thinnest.

No Boulder trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Boulder, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing in Boulder. 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 Boulder, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Boulder's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 420 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 76 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 Boulder records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in flooring; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is roofing.

Within Boulder, HVAC and landscaping are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.

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

Cleaning is the Boulder 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 Boulder 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 HVAC lost the largest share to closed flags.

Inside Boulder, the city of Boulder itself and Longmont and Louisville differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.

Boulder, CO sits inside Colorado 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 Boulder on this site are Green Bay above it and South Bend-Mishawaka below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Boulder's neighbours are San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles and Waterbury-Shelton. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Boulder

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning822.51Not published
Electrical762.33Not published$30.83
Flooring732.23Not published
HVAC702.14Not published$34.17
Landscaping1364.16Not published
Painting591.81Not published
Pest control100.31Not published
Plumbing551.68Not published$31.20
Pool60.18Not published
Roofing381.16Not published$26.99
Other home service92428.27Not 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.

One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.

Cities inside Boulder with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Boulderother home service343
Longmontother home service211
Louisvilleother home service52

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

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