Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area has 35,065 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 37.86 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 18,889 records and 53.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 130.
No trade in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin runs meaningfully ahead of Illinois’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pest control, pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 3 Illinois metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is the thinnest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Illinois.
The facts for Chicago-Naperville-Elgin
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 35,065
- Per 10,000 residents
- 37.86 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 610
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 167
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 33,941 independent, 441 franchise brand, 495 corporate owned, 188 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.76% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.35% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 9,262,825, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Chicago-Naperville-Elgin
Other home service is Chicago-Naperville-Elgin'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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. The smallest of them here is pool.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin sits close to the Illinois rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin against Illinois. Cleaning leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Pest control is thinner in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin than across Illinois, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, roofing and HVAC in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 17,720 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 1,551 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. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin'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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin'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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin trade whose records most often carry no street address, and electrical the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Chicago-Naperville-Elgin that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Chicago, Joliet, Naperville, Schaumburg and Arlington Heights, and 57 more.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN 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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin on this site are Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim above it and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's neighbours are Spokane-Spokane Valley and Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 1,769 | 1.91 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 1,551 | 1.67 | Not published | $49.21 |
| Flooring | 1,786 | 1.93 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 2,408 | 2.60 | Not published | $37.48 |
| Landscaping | 2,922 | 3.15 | Not published | |
| Painting | 1,472 | 1.59 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 497 | 0.54 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 2,171 | 2.34 | Not published | $49.70 |
| Pool | 130 | 0.14 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 1,470 | 1.59 | Not published | $39.47 |
| Other home service | 18,889 | 20.39 | 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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin with their own page
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Illinois carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.