Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
The Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area has 1,707 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 32.20 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 968 records and 56.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 14.
No trade in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent runs meaningfully ahead of Florida’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pool, pest control, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent's largest trades: it is 14th of 16 for other home service, in the bottom quarter; it is 8th of 16 for HVAC, around the middle; and it is the thinnest of them for landscaping. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.
The facts for Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,707
- Per 10,000 residents
- 32.20 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 93
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 5
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,626 independent, 21 franchise brand, 46 corporate owned, 14 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 302
- Universe quality
- 0.97% of source records merged as duplicates, 3.93% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 530,090, 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent
Other home service is Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent'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, Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. The smallest of them here is pool.
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent 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, Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent carries fewer home-service records than Florida as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Roofing takes a larger share of Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent than of Florida, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Pest control is thinner in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent 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 landscaping are Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
Of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent 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.
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 970 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 65 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, electrical and painting are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Plumbing holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Painting is the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent 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 other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Pensacola, Ensley, Brent and Navarre. Each of them carries one trade.
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent on this site are Port St. Lucie above it and Huntsville below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent's neighbours are Binghamton and Lynchburg. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 82 | 1.55 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 65 | 1.23 | Not published | $24.28 |
| Flooring | 75 | 1.41 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 137 | 2.58 | 13.9% | $27.90 |
| Landscaping | 112 | 2.11 | Not published | |
| Painting | 63 | 1.19 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 37 | 0.70 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 62 | 1.17 | 16.1% | $23.88 |
| Pool | 14 | 0.26 | 0.0% | |
| Roofing | 92 | 1.74 | 16.3% | $22.11 |
| Other home service | 968 | 18.26 | 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Pensacola | other home service | 140 |
| Ensley | other home service | 78 |
| Brent | other home service | 58 |
| Navarre | other home service | 55 |
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.