Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Boise City, ID
The Boise City, ID metro area has 2,838 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.41 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,535 records and 54.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 19.
Against Idaho’s own rate per resident for each trade, Boise City carries more pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical contractors than the state average.
The facts for Boise City
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,838
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.41 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 102
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,755 independent, 36 franchise brand, 26 corporate owned, 21 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.84% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.08% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 824,657, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Boise City
Other home service is Boise City'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, Boise City'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 Boise City. The smallest of them here is pool.
Boise City's three smallest trades are pool, electrical and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Boise City 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, Boise City sits close to the Idaho rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Boise City against Idaho. Painting leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Electrical is thinner in Boise City than across Idaho, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Boise City's three densest trades, and electrical its thinnest.
No Boise City 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 Boise City, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, roofing, HVAC and plumbing in Boise City. Of those, electrical pays the most and plumbing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Boise City, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Boise City's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,510 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 80 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 Boise City records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in flooring; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is roofing.
Within Boise City, HVAC and landscaping are the most independently held trades and painting the least.
Almost none of Boise City's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Boise City 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 Boise City 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 other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside Boise City, the city of Boise City itself and Eagle differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.
Boise City, ID sits inside Idaho 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 Boise City on this site are Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura above it and Lakeland-Winter Haven below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Boise City's neighbours are San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad and Lansing-East Lansing. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Boise City
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 127 | 1.54 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 80 | 0.97 | Not published | $29.62 |
| Flooring | 163 | 1.98 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 170 | 2.06 | Not published | $27.53 |
| Landscaping | 290 | 3.52 | Not published | |
| Painting | 106 | 1.29 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 83 | 1.01 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 148 | 1.79 | Not published | $27.38 |
| Pool | 19 | 0.23 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 117 | 1.42 | Not published | $28.89 |
| Other home service | 1,535 | 18.61 | 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 Boise City with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Boise City | other home service | 546 |
| Eagle | other home service | 59 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Idaho carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.