Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
The Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT metro area has 5,239 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 45.50 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 2,649 records and 50.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 40.
No trade in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford runs meaningfully ahead of Connecticut’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pest control, pool, roofing contractors than the state average.
Among the 5 Connecticut metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford'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 2nd of 5 for electrical, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Connecticut.
The facts for Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 5,239
- Per 10,000 residents
- 45.50 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 73
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 23
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 5,103 independent, 58 franchise brand, 51 corporate owned, 27 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.45% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.99% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,151,543, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford
Other home service is Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford'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, Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, electrical and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. The smallest of them here is pool.
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford 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, Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford sits close to the Connecticut rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford against Connecticut. Electrical leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Pest control is thinner in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford 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 electrical are Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford 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 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. 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 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,870 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 351 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.
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford'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 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford'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.
Pest control is the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford 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 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford 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 roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Hartford, West Hartford, Middletown, East Hartford and Newington, and 1 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, 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 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford on this site are Buffalo-Cheektowaga above it and Tucson below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford's neighbours are Manchester-Nashua and Wilmington. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 213 | 1.85 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 351 | 3.05 | Not published | $37.34 |
| Flooring | 242 | 2.10 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 341 | 2.96 | Not published | $36.63 |
| Landscaping | 664 | 5.77 | Not published | |
| Painting | 239 | 2.08 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 60 | 0.52 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 233 | 2.02 | Not published | $37.11 |
| Pool | 40 | 0.35 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 207 | 1.80 | Not published | $31.59 |
| Other home service | 2,649 | 23.00 | 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 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Hartford | other home service | 188 |
| West Hartford | other home service | 109 |
| Middletown | other home service | 84 |
| East Hartford | other home service | 81 |
| Newington | other home service | 68 |
| Wethersfield | other home service | 53 |
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.