Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
The Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area has 7,233 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 33.82 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 3,855 records and 53.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 58.
Against Indiana’s own rate per resident for each trade, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood carries more plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer HVAC, painting contractors than the state average.
Among the 4 Indiana metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood's largest trades: it is 3rd of 4 for other home service, around the middle; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is the densest of them for plumbing. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Indiana.
The facts for Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 7,233
- Per 10,000 residents
- 33.82 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 179
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 16
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 6,920 independent, 120 franchise brand, 132 corporate owned, 61 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.59% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.31% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,138,468, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood
Other home service is Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood'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, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, plumbing and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood. The smallest of them here is pool.
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood 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, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood sits close to the Indiana rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Plumbing takes a larger share of Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood than of Indiana, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
HVAC is thinner in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood 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 plumbing are Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood 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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, 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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood. 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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 5,390 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 304 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.
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood'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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Roofing holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Cleaning is the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood 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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Plumbing added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Carmel, Noblesville, Westfield, Zionsville and Brownsburg, and 3 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, 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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood on this site are Cleveland above it and Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood's neighbours are Albany-Schenectady-Troy and Tulsa. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 330 | 1.54 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 304 | 1.42 | Not published | $31.31 |
| Flooring | 334 | 1.56 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 402 | 1.88 | Not published | $29.89 |
| Landscaping | 711 | 3.32 | Not published | |
| Painting | 232 | 1.08 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 153 | 0.72 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 476 | 2.23 | Not published | $37.01 |
| Pool | 58 | 0.27 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 378 | 1.77 | Not published | $24.80 |
| Other home service | 3,855 | 18.03 | 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 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Carmel | other home service | 259 |
| Noblesville | other home service | 134 |
| Westfield | other home service | 101 |
| Zionsville | other home service | 94 |
| Brownsburg | other home service | 75 |
| Anderson | other home service | 67 |
| Plainfield | other home service | 65 |
| Greenfield | other home service | 54 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Indiana carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.