Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT
The Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT metro area has 1,202 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 42.98 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 560 records and 46.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 12.
Against Connecticut’s own rate per resident for each trade, Norwich-New London-Willimantic carries more pest control contractors than the state average. It carries fewer other home service, flooring, landscaping contractors than the state average.
Among the 5 Connecticut metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Norwich-New London-Willimantic's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 3rd of 5 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 3rd of 5 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Connecticut.
The facts for Norwich-New London-Willimantic
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,202
- Per 10,000 residents
- 42.98 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 16
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 6
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,183 independent, 4 franchise brand, 11 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.57% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.92% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 279,634, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Norwich-New London-Willimantic
Other home service is Norwich-New London-Willimantic's largest trade, and two of every five records here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Norwich-New London-Willimantic's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Norwich-New London-Willimantic. The smallest of them here is pool.
Norwich-New London-Willimantic's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and flooring. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Norwich-New London-Willimantic 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, Norwich-New London-Willimantic carries fewer home-service records than Connecticut as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against Connecticut's own mix, Norwich-New London-Willimantic is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Even Norwich-New London-Willimantic's thinnest trade against Connecticut, 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 Norwich-New London-Willimantic's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Norwich-New London-Willimantic 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 Norwich-New London-Willimantic, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, HVAC and electrical in Norwich-New London-Willimantic. Of those, plumbing pays the most and electrical the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Norwich-New London-Willimantic, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Plumbing carries Norwich-New London-Willimantic's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 870 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 72 plumbing 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 and HVAC follow it.
Of the Norwich-New London-Willimantic records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Norwich-New London-Willimantic, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Norwich-New London-Willimantic'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 Norwich-New London-Willimantic 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 Norwich-New London-Willimantic records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Roofing both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Norwich-New London-Willimantic, New London, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Norwich-New London-Willimantic, 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 Norwich-New London-Willimantic on this site are College Station-Bryan above it and Tuscaloosa below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Norwich-New London-Willimantic's neighbours are Prescott Valley-Prescott and Atlantic City-Hammonton. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Norwich-New London-Willimantic
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 52 | 1.86 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 82 | 2.93 | Not published | $34.73 |
| Flooring | 51 | 1.82 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 85 | 3.04 | Not published | $36.05 |
| Landscaping | 146 | 5.22 | Not published | |
| Painting | 61 | 2.18 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 25 | 0.89 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 72 | 2.57 | Not published | $37.01 |
| Pool | 12 | 0.43 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 56 | 2.00 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 560 | 20.03 | Not published |
Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. 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 Norwich-New London-Willimantic with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| New London | 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.