Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
The Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL metro area has 1,347 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 44.19 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 804 records and 59.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 23.
Against Florida’s own rate per resident for each trade, Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin carries more cleaning, other home service, painting contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pest control, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's largest trades: it is 4th of 16 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 11th of 16 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 9th of 16 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.
The facts for Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,347
- Per 10,000 residents
- 44.19 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 53
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 6
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,287 independent, 23 franchise brand, 30 corporate owned, 7 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 185
- Universe quality
- 0.44% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.38% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 304,818, 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 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin
Other home service is Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin'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, Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin'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 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. The smallest of them here is pool.
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin 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, Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin sits close to the Florida rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin against Florida. Cleaning leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
At the other end, pest control is far thinner in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin than across Florida, by the widest margin of any trade in the table.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin trades with a measured licensed share, roofing links to an active state licence most often and plumbing least often. That spread measures how well two files join here, not whether either row's businesses hold a licence.
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin 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 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin 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 electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. 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 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
HVAC carries Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 570 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 76 HVAC 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, plumbing and roofing follow it.
Of the Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and plumbing the least.
Almost none of Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Pool is the Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Wright and Miramar Beach. Each of them carries one trade.
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, 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 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin on this site are Waco above it and Sioux Falls below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's neighbours are Boston-Cambridge-Newton and Port St. Lucie. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 75 | 2.46 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 46 | 1.51 | Not published | $27.50 |
| Flooring | 62 | 2.03 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 76 | 2.49 | 10.5% | $23.47 |
| Landscaping | 92 | 3.02 | Not published | |
| Painting | 50 | 1.64 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 23 | 0.75 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 43 | 1.41 | 4.7% | $25.01 |
| Pool | 23 | 0.75 | 8.7% | |
| Roofing | 53 | 1.74 | 18.9% | $22.65 |
| Other home service | 804 | 26.38 | 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 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Wright | other home service | 61 |
| Miramar Beach | other home service | 52 |
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.