Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Fort Wayne, IN
The Fort Wayne, IN metro area has 1,765 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.55 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 898 records and 50.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 6.
Against Indiana’s own rate per resident for each trade, Fort Wayne carries more flooring, roofing, electrical contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, pest control contractors than the state average.
Among the 4 Indiana metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Fort Wayne'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 HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Indiana.
The facts for Fort Wayne
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,765
- Per 10,000 residents
- 38.55 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 45
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 4
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,686 independent, 28 franchise brand, 40 corporate owned, 11 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.89% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.13% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 457,842, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Fort Wayne
Other home service is Fort Wayne'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, Fort Wayne's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Fort Wayne. The smallest of them here is pool.
Fort Wayne's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Fort Wayne trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.
Per resident, Fort Wayne sits close to the Indiana rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Flooring takes a larger share of Fort Wayne than of Indiana, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Pest control is thinner in Fort Wayne than across Indiana, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Fort Wayne's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Fort Wayne. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Fort Wayne, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Fort Wayne's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,260 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 93 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.
Of the Fort Wayne records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is pest control.
Within Fort Wayne, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Fort Wayne'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.
Cleaning is the Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and pest control lost the largest share to closed flags.
No city inside Fort Wayne differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.
Fort Wayne, IN sits inside Indiana 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 Fort Wayne on this site are Springfield above it and Waterbury-Shelton below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Fort Wayne's neighbours are Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater and York-Hanover. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Fort Wayne
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 68 | 1.49 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 93 | 2.03 | Not published | $34.27 |
| Flooring | 102 | 2.23 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 119 | 2.60 | Not published | $29.25 |
| Landscaping | 182 | 3.98 | Not published | |
| Painting | 64 | 1.40 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 27 | 0.59 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 93 | 2.03 | Not published | $37.07 |
| Pool | 6 | 0.13 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 113 | 2.47 | Not published | $23.48 |
| Other home service | 898 | 19.61 | 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.
One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Home-service contractors in Indiana carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.