Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Port St. Lucie, FL
The Port St. Lucie, FL metro area has 2,353 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 43.83 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,318 records and 56.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 50.
Against Florida’s own rate per resident for each trade, Port St. Lucie carries more roofing, pest control, HVAC 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 Port St. Lucie's largest trades: it is 5th of 16 for other home service, around the middle; it is 7th of 16 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 3rd 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 Port St. Lucie
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,353
- Per 10,000 residents
- 43.83 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 80
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 4
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,267 independent, 27 franchise brand, 45 corporate owned, 14 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 370
- Universe quality
- 0.88% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.97% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 536,901, 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 Port St. Lucie
Other home service is Port St. Lucie'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, Port St. Lucie's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Port St. Lucie. The smallest of them here is pool.
Port St. Lucie's three smallest trades are pool, painting and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Port St. Lucie 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, Port St. Lucie sits close to the Florida rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Roofing takes a larger share of Port St. Lucie than of Florida, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Port St. Lucie 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 Port St. Lucie's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Port St. Lucie 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.
Port St. Lucie 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 Port St. Lucie 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 Port St. Lucie. 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 Port St. Lucie, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Port St. Lucie's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,100 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 92 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, roofing and plumbing follow it.
Of the Port St. Lucie records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Port St. Lucie, landscaping and electrical are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of Port St. Lucie'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 Port St. Lucie 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 Port St. Lucie records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Plumbing added the largest share of new records and HVAC lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Port St. Lucie that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Stuart, Fort Pierce and Palm City. Each of them carries one trade.
Port St. Lucie, 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 Port St. Lucie on this site are Modesto above it and Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Port St. Lucie's neighbours are Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin and Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Port St. Lucie
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 109 | 2.03 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 92 | 1.71 | Not published | $28.14 |
| Flooring | 87 | 1.62 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 159 | 2.96 | 5.0% | $27.50 |
| Landscaping | 196 | 3.65 | Not published | |
| Painting | 69 | 1.29 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 85 | 1.58 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 77 | 1.43 | 6.5% | $24.52 |
| Pool | 50 | 0.93 | 4.0% | |
| Roofing | 111 | 2.07 | 8.1% | $22.88 |
| Other home service | 1,318 | 24.55 | 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 Port St. Lucie with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Stuart | other home service | 130 |
| Fort Pierce | other home service | 94 |
| Palm City | other home service | 83 |
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.