Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
The Fort Collins-Loveland, CO metro area has 1,785 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 48.14 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,041 records and 58.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 4.
Against Colorado’s own rate per resident for each trade, Fort Collins-Loveland carries more pest control, landscaping, flooring contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 5 Colorado metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Fort Collins-Loveland's largest trades: it is 2nd of 5 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 5 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for flooring. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Colorado.
The facts for Fort Collins-Loveland
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,785
- Per 10,000 residents
- 48.14 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 50
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,725 independent, 25 franchise brand, 24 corporate owned, 11 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.61% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.34% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 370,771, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Fort Collins-Loveland
Other home service is Fort Collins-Loveland'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, Fort Collins-Loveland's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Fort Collins-Loveland. The smallest of them here is pool.
Fort Collins-Loveland's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Fort Collins-Loveland 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, Fort Collins-Loveland sits close to the Colorado rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pest control takes a larger share of Fort Collins-Loveland than of Colorado, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
HVAC is thinner in Fort Collins-Loveland than across Colorado, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and flooring are Fort Collins-Loveland's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Fort Collins-Loveland 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 Fort Collins-Loveland, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, electrical, plumbing and roofing in Fort Collins-Loveland. 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 Fort Collins-Loveland, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
HVAC carries Fort Collins-Loveland's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 930 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 82 HVAC 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. Electrical, plumbing and roofing follow it.
Fort Collins-Loveland's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in flooring and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Fort Collins-Loveland, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of Fort Collins-Loveland's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Roofing holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Fort Collins-Loveland trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Fort Collins-Loveland records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
No city inside Fort Collins-Loveland differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.
Fort Collins-Loveland, 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 Fort Collins-Loveland on this site are Davenport-Moline-Rock Island above it and Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Fort Collins-Loveland's neighbours are Cape Coral-Fort Myers and Lancaster. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Fort Collins-Loveland
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 86 | 2.32 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 69 | 1.86 | Not published | $29.52 |
| Flooring | 98 | 2.64 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 82 | 2.21 | Not published | $31.87 |
| Landscaping | 148 | 3.99 | Not published | |
| Painting | 69 | 1.86 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 32 | 0.86 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 72 | 1.94 | Not published | $29.14 |
| Pool | 4 | 0.11 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 84 | 2.27 | Not published | $23.37 |
| Other home service | 1,041 | 28.08 | 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.
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.
Home-service contractors in Colorado carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.