Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO
The Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area has 12,143 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 40.41 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 6,804 records and 56.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 45.
No trade in Denver-Aurora-Centennial runs meaningfully ahead of Colorado’s own rate per resident for that trade. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 5 Colorado metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Denver-Aurora-Centennial's largest trades: it is 4th of 5 for other home service, around the middle; it is 4th of 5 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 5 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Colorado.
The facts for Denver-Aurora-Centennial
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 12,143
- Per 10,000 residents
- 40.41 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 379
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 47
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 11,763 independent, 153 franchise brand, 126 corporate owned, 101 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.73% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.40% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 3,005,131, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Denver-Aurora-Centennial
Other home service is Denver-Aurora-Centennial'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, Denver-Aurora-Centennial's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Denver-Aurora-Centennial. The smallest of them here is pool.
Denver-Aurora-Centennial's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Denver-Aurora-Centennial 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, Denver-Aurora-Centennial sits close to the Colorado rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Denver-Aurora-Centennial against Colorado. Roofing leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Even Denver-Aurora-Centennial's thinnest trade against Colorado, other home service, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Denver-Aurora-Centennial's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Denver-Aurora-Centennial 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 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, 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 Denver-Aurora-Centennial. 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 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Denver-Aurora-Centennial's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 10,450 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 546 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.
Denver-Aurora-Centennial's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Denver-Aurora-Centennial, pool and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Denver-Aurora-Centennial'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.
Other home service is the Denver-Aurora-Centennial 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 Denver-Aurora-Centennial 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Denver-Aurora-Centennial that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Denver, Centennial, Arvada, Westminster and Castle Rock, and 11 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, 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 Denver-Aurora-Centennial on this site are San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad above it and Baltimore-Columbia-Towson below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Denver-Aurora-Centennial's neighbours are Chattanooga and Anchorage. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Denver-Aurora-Centennial
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 613 | 2.04 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 546 | 1.82 | Not published | $30.36 |
| Flooring | 664 | 2.21 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 676 | 2.25 | Not published | $34.41 |
| Landscaping | 924 | 3.07 | Not published | |
| Painting | 495 | 1.65 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 163 | 0.54 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 555 | 1.85 | Not published | $30.72 |
| Pool | 45 | 0.15 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 658 | 2.19 | Not published | $26.84 |
| Other home service | 6,804 | 22.64 | 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 Denver-Aurora-Centennial with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Denver | other home service | 1,600 |
| Centennial | other home service | 282 |
| Arvada | other home service | 265 |
| Westminster | other home service | 181 |
| Castle Rock | other home service | 178 |
| Parker | other home service | 168 |
| Thornton | other home service | 168 |
| Highlands Ranch | other home service | 155 |
| Wheat Ridge | other home service | 123 |
| North Washington | other home service | 105 |
| Brighton | other home service | 89 |
| Sheridan | other home service | 84 |
| Greenwood Village | other home service | 82 |
| Four Square Mile | other home service | 64 |
| Northglenn | other home service | 57 |
| Welby | other home service | 54 |
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.