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Home-service contractors in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL

The North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL metro area has 4,807 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 52.82 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 2,715 records and 56.5% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pest control, with 136.

Against Florida’s own rate per resident for each trade, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota carries more pool, roofing, painting contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.

Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's largest trades: it is 2nd of 16 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 6th of 16 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 16 for HVAC, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.

The facts for North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota

Home-service contractors in this metro
4,807
Per 10,000 residents
52.82 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
158
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
16
Independent, franchise, corporate
4,652 independent, 48 franchise brand, 67 corporate owned, 40 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
742
Universe quality
0.58% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.98% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 910,108, 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 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota

Other home service is North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota'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, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota. The smallest of them here is pest control.

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's three smallest trades are pest control, electrical and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota 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, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota carries more home-service records than Florida as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Against Florida's own mix, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Plumbing is thinner in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota 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 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

Of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota trades with a measured licensed share, HVAC 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.

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota 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 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota 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, plumbing, electrical and roofing in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota. 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 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Roofing carries North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,990 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 212 roofing 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, electrical and plumbing follow it.

Of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.

Within North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota'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.

Plumbing is the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pest control the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Roofing added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Sarasota, North Port, Bradenton, Fruitville and Bee Ridge, and 3 more. Each of them carries one trade.

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, 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 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota on this site are Bakersfield-Delano above it and Albany-Schenectady-Troy below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's neighbours are Naples-Marco Island and Portland-South Portland. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning2182.40Not published
Electrical1571.73Not published$24.97
Flooring2342.57Not published
HVAC2803.0814.6%$28.40
Landscaping3473.81Not published
Painting1761.93Not published
Pest control1361.49Not published
Plumbing1651.8112.2%$27.96
Pool1671.834.8%
Roofing2122.3313.2%$23.49
Other home service2,71529.83Not 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 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Sarasotaother home service282
North Portother home service157
Bradentonother home service131
Fruitvilleother home service130
Bee Ridgeother home service104
Lakewood Ranchother home service84
Laurelother home service54
South Veniceother home service50

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.