Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area has 26,399 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 41.85 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 14,226 records and 53.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 263.
Against Georgia’s own rate per resident for each trade, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell carries more cleaning, painting, roofing contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 5 Georgia metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is the densest of them for cleaning. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Georgia.
The facts for Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 26,399
- Per 10,000 residents
- 41.85 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 491
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 75
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 25,378 independent, 380 franchise brand, 433 corporate owned, 208 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.61% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.48% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,307,261, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
Other home service is Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell'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, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, cleaning and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. The smallest of them here is pool.
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell 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, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell sits close to the Georgia rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell against Georgia. Cleaning leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Even Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's thinnest trade against Georgia, pest control, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and cleaning are Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, electrical, plumbing and roofing in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 13,430 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 993 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.
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell'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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Peachtree Corners and Tucker, and 22 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA sits inside Georgia 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell on this site are Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands above it and Washington-Arlington-Alexandria below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's neighbours are Raleigh-Cary and Madison. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 1,518 | 2.41 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 993 | 1.57 | Not published | $28.20 |
| Flooring | 1,389 | 2.20 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 1,473 | 2.34 | Not published | $28.35 |
| Landscaping | 2,366 | 3.75 | Not published | |
| Painting | 917 | 1.45 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 649 | 1.03 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 1,341 | 2.13 | Not published | $28.07 |
| Pool | 263 | 0.42 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 1,264 | 2.00 | Not published | $23.61 |
| Other home service | 14,226 | 22.55 | 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | other home service | 1,083 |
| Sandy Springs | other home service | 266 |
| Alpharetta | other home service | 221 |
| Peachtree Corners | other home service | 177 |
| Tucker | other home service | 166 |
| Johns Creek | other home service | 151 |
| Peachtree City | other home service | 144 |
| Dunwoody | other home service | 122 |
| Smyrna | other home service | 113 |
| Buford | other home service | 109 |
| Newnan | other home service | 108 |
| Stonecrest | other home service | 106 |
| Douglasville | other home service | 101 |
| Milton | other home service | 99 |
| Chamblee | other home service | 95 |
| Duluth | other home service | 93 |
| Suwanee | other home service | 92 |
| Stockbridge | other home service | 78 |
| Acworth | other home service | 76 |
| Brookhaven | other home service | 75 |
| Carrollton | other home service | 69 |
| Tyrone | other home service | 62 |
| Decatur | other home service | 61 |
| Dallas | other home service | 52 |
| East Point | other home service | 52 |
| Roswell | landscaping | 52 |
| Covington | other home service | 51 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Georgia carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.