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Pool contractors in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro area has 443 pool contractors, or 0.72 per 10,000 residents.

What pool work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national pool page. Florida publishes a business-level licence source for pool, and the Florida page lists which classes count.

The facts

Pool contractors in this metro
443
Per 10,000 residents
0.72 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
18
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
7.2%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. Florida issues both individual and qualified-business records, and qualified-business rows carry no trade code of their own. Only 12.4% of them resolve to a trade through the qualifying agent, so the Florida share is built in practice on individual certified licensees.
Active licenses with no public listing
391
Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
438 independent, 0 franchise brand, 2 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.90% 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 pool in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach

By record count, pool is the smallest of the 11 trades this site counts in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, behind painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach.

Per resident, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach carries fewer pool records than Florida as a whole.

The independent share of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's pool records is close to the Florida figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Address completeness on Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's pool records is close to the Florida figure.

The share of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's pool records linking to an active state licence is close to the Florida figure for the same trade.

Almost every Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach pool record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach has a count of pool 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.

Some active Florida licences covering pool in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach have no matching record in open place data, deduplicated on the licence, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to pool cleanly enough to print, so Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach pool records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's pool records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More pool records first appeared in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach differs from the metro enough on pool to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site publishes a pool page for, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach is 10th of 16 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a pool page for rather than every metro area in Florida.

Ordered by pool records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a pool page for, the hubs either side of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach are Tucson above it and Santa Rosa-Petaluma below it.

Pool contractors, A to Z

409 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 1 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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