Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
The Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro area has 1,702 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 27.04 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 917 records and 53.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 15.
No trade in Augusta-Richmond County runs meaningfully ahead of Georgia’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer roofing, painting, cleaning contractors than the state average.
Among the 5 Georgia metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Augusta-Richmond County's largest trades: it is 4th of 5 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 5 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the thinnest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Georgia.
The facts for Augusta-Richmond County
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,702
- Per 10,000 residents
- 27.04 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 43
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,600 independent, 41 franchise brand, 49 corporate owned, 12 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.70% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.29% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 629,429, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Augusta-Richmond County
Other home service is Augusta-Richmond County'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, Augusta-Richmond County'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 Augusta-Richmond County. The smallest of them here is pool.
Augusta-Richmond County's three smallest trades are pool, painting and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Augusta-Richmond County 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, Augusta-Richmond County carries fewer home-service records than Georgia as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Pest control takes a larger share of Augusta-Richmond County than of Georgia, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
At the other end, roofing is far thinner in Augusta-Richmond County than across Georgia, by the widest margin of any trade in the table.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Augusta-Richmond County's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.
No Augusta-Richmond County 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 Augusta-Richmond County, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Augusta-Richmond County. 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 Augusta-Richmond County, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Augusta-Richmond County's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 860 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 73 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.
Augusta-Richmond County's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in painting and the corporate-owned ones in other home service.
Within Augusta-Richmond County, landscaping and plumbing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Augusta-Richmond County's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Electrical holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Painting is the Augusta-Richmond County 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 Augusta-Richmond County records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Augusta-Richmond County that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance), Evans and Aiken. Each of them carries one trade.
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC crosses a state line, so this metro area sits in more than one licensing regime at once. Every count above is the whole metro; every licence figure beneath it is computed inside one state.
Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Augusta-Richmond County on this site are Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville above it and Jackson below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Augusta-Richmond County's neighbours are Corpus Christi and Columbus. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Augusta-Richmond County
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 76 | 1.21 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 73 | 1.16 | Not published | $28.69 |
| Flooring | 92 | 1.46 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 123 | 1.95 | Not published | $23.51 |
| Landscaping | 179 | 2.84 | Not published | |
| Painting | 44 | 0.70 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 59 | 0.94 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 79 | 1.26 | Not published | $26.29 |
| Pool | 15 | 0.24 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 45 | 0.71 | Not published | $19.92 |
| Other home service | 917 | 14.57 | 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 Augusta-Richmond County with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) | other home service | 317 |
| Evans | other home service | 62 |
| Aiken | other home service | 54 |
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.