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Home-service contractors in Jacksonville, FL

The Jacksonville, FL metro area has 5,711 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 33.33 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 3,097 records and 54.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 91.

No trade in Jacksonville runs meaningfully ahead of Florida’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pool, pest control, electrical contractors than the state average.

Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Jacksonville's largest trades: it is 15th of 16 for other home service, in the bottom quarter; it is 13th of 16 for landscaping, in the bottom quarter; and it is 13th of 16 for HVAC, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.

The facts for Jacksonville

Home-service contractors in this metro
5,711
Per 10,000 residents
33.33 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
187
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
30
Independent, franchise, corporate
5,437 independent, 79 franchise brand, 138 corporate owned, 57 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
967
Universe quality
0.47% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.72% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,713,240, 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 Jacksonville

Other home service is Jacksonville'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, Jacksonville'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 Jacksonville. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Jacksonville 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, Jacksonville carries fewer home-service records than Florida as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Roofing takes a larger share of Jacksonville than of Florida, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Pool is thinner in Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

Of the Jacksonville trades with a measured licensed share, plumbing links to an active state licence most often and pool least often. That spread measures how well two files join here, not whether either row's businesses hold a licence.

Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville 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 plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing in Jacksonville. 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 Jacksonville, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Jacksonville's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 4,990 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 199 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 Jacksonville records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Jacksonville, landscaping and plumbing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Jacksonville'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.

Cleaning is the Jacksonville trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Jacksonville 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 cleaning lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Jacksonville that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Lakeside, St. Augustine and Palm Valley. Each of them carries one trade.

Jacksonville, 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 Jacksonville on this site are Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk above it and Providence-Warwick below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Jacksonville's neighbours are Richmond and Rochester. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Jacksonville

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning2941.72Not published
Electrical1991.16Not published$28.02
Flooring2811.64Not published
HVAC3572.089.8%$28.17
Landscaping4512.63Not published
Painting2111.23Not published
Pest control1620.95Not published
Plumbing2871.6815.4%$28.33
Pool910.537.7%
Roofing2811.6412.5%$22.85
Other home service3,09718.08Not 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 Jacksonville with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Lakesideother home service57
St. Augustineother home service54
Palm Valleyother home service51

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.