Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
The Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL metro area has 2,817 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 43.74 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,526 records and 54.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 62.
Against Florida’s own rate per resident for each trade, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville carries more roofing, landscaping, pest control contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing, flooring contractors than the state average.
Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville's largest trades: it is 6th of 16 for other home service, around the middle; it is 4th of 16 for landscaping, inside the top quarter; and it is the densest of them for roofing. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.
The facts for Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,817
- Per 10,000 residents
- 43.74 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 61
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,717 independent, 23 franchise brand, 53 corporate owned, 24 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 340
- Universe quality
- 1.19% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.67% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 643,979, 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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville
Other home service is Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville'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, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, roofing and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. The smallest of them here is pool.
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville's three smallest trades are pool, electrical and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville 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, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville sits close to the Florida rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Against Florida's own mix, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville is heaviest in roofing: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Plumbing is thinner in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville 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 roofing are Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville trades with a measured licensed share, roofing 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.
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville 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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville 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, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. 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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,220 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 91 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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is pest control.
Within Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville'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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. HVAC added the largest share of new records and flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Merritt Island, West Melbourne and Rockledge. Each of them carries one trade.
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, 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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville on this site are Wichita above it and Augusta-Richmond County below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville's neighbours are Port St. Lucie and Worcester. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 145 | 2.25 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 91 | 1.41 | Not published | $28.10 |
| Flooring | 104 | 1.61 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 156 | 2.42 | 9.6% | $27.52 |
| Landscaping | 275 | 4.27 | Not published | |
| Painting | 101 | 1.57 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 102 | 1.58 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 93 | 1.44 | 10.8% | $28.74 |
| Pool | 62 | 0.96 | 8.1% | |
| Roofing | 162 | 2.52 | 11.1% | $22.97 |
| Other home service | 1,526 | 23.70 | 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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Merritt Island | other home service | 90 |
| West Melbourne | other home service | 79 |
| Rockledge | other home service | 60 |
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.