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Home-service contractors in Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL

The Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL metro area has 2,302 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 28.13 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,204 records and 52.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 55.

No trade in Lakeland-Winter Haven runs meaningfully ahead of Florida’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer plumbing, flooring, other home service contractors than the state average.

Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Lakeland-Winter Haven's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 14th of 16 for landscaping, in the bottom quarter; and it is the thinnest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.

The facts for Lakeland-Winter Haven

Home-service contractors in this metro
2,302
Per 10,000 residents
28.13 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
64
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
5
Independent, franchise, corporate
2,205 independent, 36 franchise brand, 47 corporate owned, 14 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
329
Universe quality
0.65% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.87% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 818,330, 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven

Other home service is Lakeland-Winter Haven'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, Lakeland-Winter Haven'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 Lakeland-Winter Haven. The smallest of them here is pool.

Lakeland-Winter Haven's three smallest trades are pool, roofing and flooring. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

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

Against Florida's own mix, Lakeland-Winter Haven is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Plumbing is thinner in Lakeland-Winter Haven 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

Of the Lakeland-Winter Haven trades with a measured licensed share, plumbing 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.

Lakeland-Winter Haven 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven. 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

HVAC carries Lakeland-Winter Haven's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,120 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 142 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, roofing and plumbing follow it.

Of the Lakeland-Winter Haven records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Lakeland-Winter Haven, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Lakeland-Winter Haven'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 Lakeland-Winter Haven 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Lakeland-Winter Haven that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Lakeland and Winter Haven. Each of them carries one trade.

Lakeland-Winter Haven, 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven on this site are Boise City above it and Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Lakeland-Winter Haven's neighbours are Memphis and Clarksville. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Lakeland-Winter Haven

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning1201.47Not published
Electrical1021.25Not published$26.40
Flooring911.11Not published
HVAC1421.749.9%$27.25
Landscaping1922.35Not published
Painting1091.33Not published
Pest control1051.28Not published
Plumbing931.1416.1%$24.62
Pool550.679.1%
Roofing891.097.9%$22.47
Other home service1,20414.71Not 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 Lakeland-Winter Haven with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Lakelandother home service242
Winter Havenother home service90

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.