Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT
The Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metro area has 5,875 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 61.74 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 3,151 records and 53.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 60.
Against Connecticut’s own rate per resident for each trade, Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury carries more pool, cleaning, other home service contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 5 Connecticut metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury'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 HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Connecticut.
The facts for Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 5,875
- Per 10,000 residents
- 61.74 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 62
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 16
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 5,733 independent, 55 franchise brand, 62 corporate owned, 25 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.36% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.86% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 951,558, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury
Other home service is Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury'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, Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury. The smallest of them here is pool.
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury 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, Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury carries more home-service records than Connecticut as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Pool takes a larger share of Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury than of Connecticut, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury than across Connecticut, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury 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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for roofing, plumbing, electrical and HVAC in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury. Of those, roofing pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,630 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 307 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.
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury'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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, HVAC and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury'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.
Cleaning is the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury 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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Norwalk, Greenwich and Bethel. Each of them carries one trade.
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT sits inside Connecticut 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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury on this site are New Orleans-Metairie above it and Knoxville below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury is the densest metro area this site carries, just above Naples-Marco Island.
Every trade in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 268 | 2.82 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 307 | 3.23 | Not published | $38.25 |
| Flooring | 254 | 2.67 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 319 | 3.35 | Not published | $37.25 |
| Landscaping | 720 | 7.57 | Not published | |
| Painting | 277 | 2.91 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 83 | 0.87 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 207 | 2.18 | Not published | $38.32 |
| Pool | 60 | 0.63 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 229 | 2.41 | Not published | $39.09 |
| Other home service | 3,151 | 33.11 | 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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Norwalk | other home service | 339 |
| Greenwich | other home service | 99 |
| Bethel | other home service | 54 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Connecticut carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.