Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Waterbury-Shelton, CT
The Waterbury-Shelton, CT metro area has 2,107 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 46.19 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,011 records and 48.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 22.
Against Connecticut’s own rate per resident for each trade, Waterbury-Shelton carries more painting, roofing, plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer flooring, landscaping, other home service contractors than the state average.
Among the 5 Connecticut metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Waterbury-Shelton's largest trades: it is 3rd of 5 for other home service, around the middle; it is 4th of 5 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd 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 Waterbury-Shelton
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,107
- Per 10,000 residents
- 46.19 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 33
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 9
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,059 independent, 20 franchise brand, 23 corporate owned, 5 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.47% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.71% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 456,128, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Waterbury-Shelton
Other home service is Waterbury-Shelton'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, Waterbury-Shelton's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and painting. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Waterbury-Shelton. The smallest of them here is pool.
Waterbury-Shelton's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and flooring. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Waterbury-Shelton 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, Waterbury-Shelton sits close to the Connecticut rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Painting takes a larger share of Waterbury-Shelton than of Connecticut, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Flooring is thinner in Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical and HVAC in Waterbury-Shelton. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Waterbury-Shelton, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Waterbury-Shelton's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,030 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 132 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 and HVAC follow it.
Waterbury-Shelton'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 Waterbury-Shelton, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Waterbury-Shelton's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Other home service holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
No city inside Waterbury-Shelton differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.
Waterbury-Shelton, 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 Waterbury-Shelton on this site are Fort Wayne above it and Vallejo below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Waterbury-Shelton's neighbours are Boulder and Manchester-Nashua. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Waterbury-Shelton
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 87 | 1.91 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 132 | 2.89 | Not published | $36.47 |
| Flooring | 67 | 1.47 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 151 | 3.31 | Not published | $34.96 |
| Landscaping | 232 | 5.09 | Not published | |
| Painting | 140 | 3.07 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 30 | 0.66 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 120 | 2.63 | Not published | $36.96 |
| Pool | 22 | 0.48 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 115 | 2.52 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 1,011 | 22.16 | 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.
Home-service contractors in Connecticut carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.