Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro area has 25,277 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 40.88 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 14,423 records and 57.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 443.
Against Florida’s own rate per resident for each trade, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach carries more plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer landscaping, painting, pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's largest trades: it is 7th of 16 for other home service, around the middle; it is 7th of 16 for HVAC, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 16 for plumbing, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.
The facts for Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 25,277
- Per 10,000 residents
- 40.88 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 707
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 86
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 24,546 independent, 262 franchise brand, 357 corporate owned, 112 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 4,343
- Universe quality
- 0.64% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.82% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,183,199, 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach
Other home service is Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach'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 HVAC, the next largest.
In order, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, plumbing and landscaping. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. The smallest of them here is pool.
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach sits close to the Florida rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Plumbing takes a larger share of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach than of Florida, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Landscaping is thinner in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach than across Florida, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and plumbing are Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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.
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 12,990 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 946 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is pest control.
Within Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach'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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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.
The cities inside Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Davie, Miami, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach and Coral Springs, and 34 more. Davie carries the most trades of them.
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach on this site are Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington above it and Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's neighbours are Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton and Appleton. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 1,204 | 1.95 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 946 | 1.53 | Not published | $28.19 |
| Flooring | 1,291 | 2.09 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 1,635 | 2.64 | 6.9% | $27.90 |
| Landscaping | 1,394 | 2.25 | Not published | |
| Painting | 654 | 1.06 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 696 | 1.13 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 1,622 | 2.62 | 6.3% | $27.77 |
| Pool | 443 | 0.72 | 7.2% | |
| Roofing | 969 | 1.57 | 8.3% | $23.09 |
| Other home service | 14,423 | 23.33 | 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach with their own page
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.