Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in New Haven, CT
The New Haven, CT metro area has 2,383 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 41.94 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,223 records and 51.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 15.
No trade in New Haven runs meaningfully ahead of Connecticut’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pool, landscaping, electrical contractors than the state average.
Among the 5 Connecticut metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in New Haven's largest trades: it is 4th of 5 for other home service, around the middle; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is the thinnest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Connecticut.
The facts for New Haven
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,383
- Per 10,000 residents
- 41.94 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 46
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 8
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,310 independent, 23 franchise brand, 41 corporate owned, 9 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.54% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.38% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 568,158, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about New Haven
Other home service is New Haven'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, New Haven's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in New Haven. The smallest of them here is pool.
New Haven's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in New Haven 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, New Haven carries fewer home-service records than Connecticut as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Pest control takes a larger share of New Haven than of Connecticut, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Landscaping is thinner in New Haven 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 New Haven's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No New Haven 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 New Haven, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in New Haven. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for New Haven, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries New Haven's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 990 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 123 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 New Haven records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within New Haven, roofing and HVAC are the most independently held trades and other home service the least.
Almost none of New Haven'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 New Haven 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 New Haven records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. HVAC added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside New Haven, the city of New Haven itself and East Haven differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.
New Haven, 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 New Haven on this site are Scranton--Wilkes-Barre above it and Portland-South Portland below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, New Haven's neighbours are Green Bay and Raleigh-Cary. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in New Haven
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 104 | 1.83 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 123 | 2.16 | Not published | $37.22 |
| Flooring | 125 | 2.20 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 162 | 2.85 | Not published | $36.96 |
| Landscaping | 247 | 4.35 | Not published | |
| Painting | 104 | 1.83 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 41 | 0.72 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 126 | 2.22 | Not published | $37.32 |
| Pool | 15 | 0.26 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 113 | 1.99 | Not published | $29.23 |
| Other home service | 1,223 | 21.53 | 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 New Haven with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| New Haven | other home service | 153 |
| East Haven | other home service | 51 |
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.