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Home-service contractors in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

The Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro area has 4,239 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 50.79 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 2,313 records and 54.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 84.

Against Florida’s own rate per resident for each trade, Cape Coral-Fort Myers carries more cleaning, plumbing, landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pest control contractors than the state average.

Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Cape Coral-Fort Myers's largest trades: it is 3rd of 16 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 5th of 16 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.

The facts for Cape Coral-Fort Myers

Home-service contractors in this metro
4,239
Per 10,000 residents
50.79 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
163
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
11
Independent, franchise, corporate
4,083 independent, 42 franchise brand, 77 corporate owned, 37 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
886
Universe quality
0.77% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.72% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 834,573, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Cape Coral-Fort Myers

Other home service is Cape Coral-Fort Myers'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, Cape Coral-Fort Myers's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Cape Coral-Fort Myers. The smallest of them here is pool.

Cape Coral-Fort Myers's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and electrical. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Cape Coral-Fort Myers 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, Cape Coral-Fort Myers carries more home-service records than Florida as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Cleaning takes a larger share of Cape Coral-Fort Myers than of Florida, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Pest control is thinner in Cape Coral-Fort Myers than across Florida, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Cape Coral-Fort Myers's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

Of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers trades with a measured licensed share, HVAC links to an active state licence most often and roofing least often. That spread measures how well two files join here, not whether either row's businesses hold a licence.

Cape Coral-Fort Myers has a count of trade-covering licences issued in the last twelve months but no observable lapse count, so the issued figure is published alone rather than turned into a churn rate it cannot support.

Almost every Cape Coral-Fort Myers record sits inside the state whose licence file its share is computed from, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, electrical, plumbing and roofing in Cape Coral-Fort Myers. Of those, HVAC pays the most and roofing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Cape Coral-Fort Myers, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Cape Coral-Fort Myers's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,140 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 130 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.

Of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Cape Coral-Fort Myers, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pool the least.

Almost none of Cape Coral-Fort Myers'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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Cape Coral-Fort Myers that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres, Villas and North Fort Myers, and 2 more. Each of them carries one trade.

Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL sits inside Florida 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers on this site are Charleston-North Charleston above it and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Cape Coral-Fort Myers's neighbours are Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach and Fort Collins-Loveland. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Cape Coral-Fort Myers

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning2583.09Not published
Electrical1301.56Not published$27.85
Flooring1832.19Not published
HVAC2703.2414.4%$27.97
Landscaping3534.23Not published
Painting1401.68Not published
Pest control891.07Not published
Plumbing2432.9110.3%$24.85
Pool841.019.5%
Roofing1762.118.5%$22.54
Other home service2,31327.71Not 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Cape Coralother home service560
Fort Myersother home service301
Lehigh Acresother home service157
Villasother home service86
North Fort Myersother home service83
Esteroother home service74
San Carlos Parkother home service68

The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.

Home-service contractors in Florida carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.