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Home-service contractors in Lexington-Fayette, KY

The Lexington-Fayette, KY metro area has 2,044 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 39.30 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,059 records and 51.8% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 13.

Against Kentucky’s own rate per resident for each trade, Lexington-Fayette carries more painting, landscaping, roofing contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.

Among the 2 Kentucky metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Lexington-Fayette'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 Kentucky.

The facts for Lexington-Fayette

Home-service contractors in this metro
2,044
Per 10,000 residents
39.30 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
51
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
6
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,937 independent, 36 franchise brand, 50 corporate owned, 21 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.63% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.13% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 520,045, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Lexington-Fayette

Other home service is Lexington-Fayette'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, Lexington-Fayette's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Lexington-Fayette. The smallest of them here is pool.

Lexington-Fayette's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and cleaning. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Lexington-Fayette 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, Lexington-Fayette carries more home-service records than Kentucky as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Painting takes a larger share of Lexington-Fayette than of Kentucky, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Plumbing is thinner in Lexington-Fayette than across Kentucky, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Lexington-Fayette's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

No Lexington-Fayette 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 Lexington-Fayette, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing in Lexington-Fayette. 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 Lexington-Fayette, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Lexington-Fayette's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,500 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 117 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 Lexington-Fayette records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Lexington-Fayette, electrical and cleaning are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Lexington-Fayette'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.

Pest control is the Lexington-Fayette 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 Lexington-Fayette 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 plumbing lost the largest share to closed flags.

No city inside Lexington-Fayette differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.

Lexington-Fayette, KY sits inside Kentucky 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 Lexington-Fayette on this site are Huntsville above it and Killeen-Temple below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Lexington-Fayette's neighbours are Roanoke and Rockford. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Lexington-Fayette

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning701.35Not published
Electrical1172.25Not published$27.56
Flooring1062.04Not published
HVAC1452.79Not published$28.98
Landscaping2013.87Not published
Painting871.67Not published
Pest control410.79Not published
Plumbing931.79Not published$29.75
Pool130.25Not published
Roofing1122.15Not published$22.42
Other home service1,05920.36Not 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.

Home-service contractors in Kentucky carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.