Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area has 13,166 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 39.38 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 6,996 records and 53.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 318.
No trade in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater runs meaningfully ahead of Florida’s own rate per resident for that trade. 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's largest trades: it is 11th of 16 for other home service, around the middle; it is 12th of 16 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 5th of 16 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Florida.
The facts for Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 13,166
- Per 10,000 residents
- 39.38 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 392
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 38
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 12,652 independent, 181 franchise brand, 243 corporate owned, 90 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 1,886
- Universe quality
- 0.74% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.16% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 3,342,963, 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater
Other home service is Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater'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, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater'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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. The smallest of them here is pool.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's three smallest trades are pool, electrical and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 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, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater sits close to the Florida rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pest control takes a larger share of Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater than of Florida, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's thinnest trade against Florida, roofing, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater trades with a measured licensed share, plumbing 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.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 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, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 7,170 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 474 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater'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.
Other home service is the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Tampa, Brandon, Palm Harbor, Plant City and Land O' Lakes, and 9 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater on this site are Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington above it and San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's neighbours are Springfield and Roanoke. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 657 | 1.97 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 474 | 1.42 | Not published | $27.62 |
| Flooring | 704 | 2.11 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 896 | 2.68 | 10.4% | $24.30 |
| Landscaping | 968 | 2.90 | Not published | |
| Painting | 495 | 1.48 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 477 | 1.43 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 696 | 2.08 | 10.6% | $25.00 |
| Pool | 318 | 0.95 | 8.5% | |
| Roofing | 485 | 1.45 | 9.3% | $22.68 |
| Other home service | 6,996 | 20.93 | 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Tampa | other home service | 989 |
| Brandon | other home service | 253 |
| Palm Harbor | other home service | 145 |
| Plant City | other home service | 95 |
| Land O' Lakes | other home service | 94 |
| Palm River-Clair Mel | other home service | 90 |
| Lutz | other home service | 77 |
| Valrico | other home service | 69 |
| Dunedin | other home service | 64 |
| Temple Terrace | other home service | 62 |
| Ruskin | other home service | 60 |
| Egypt Lake-Leto | other home service | 59 |
| East Lake | other home service | 53 |
| Lealman | other home service | 52 |
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.