Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
The Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area has 4,520 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 33.10 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 2,360 records and 52.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 32.
Against Kentucky’s own rate per resident for each trade, Louisville/Jefferson County carries more cleaning, landscaping 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 Louisville/Jefferson County's largest trades: it is the thinnest 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 Kentucky.
The facts for Louisville/Jefferson County
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 4,520
- Per 10,000 residents
- 33.10 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 101
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 18
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 4,325 independent, 65 franchise brand, 88 corporate owned, 42 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.70% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.04% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,365,557, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Louisville/Jefferson County
Other home service is Louisville/Jefferson County'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, Louisville/Jefferson County'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 Louisville/Jefferson County. The smallest of them here is pool.
Louisville/Jefferson County's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Louisville/Jefferson County 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, Louisville/Jefferson County sits close to the Kentucky rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Cleaning takes a larger share of Louisville/Jefferson County than of Kentucky, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Louisville/Jefferson County's thinnest trade against Kentucky, plumbing, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Louisville/Jefferson County's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Louisville/Jefferson County 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 Louisville/Jefferson County, 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 Louisville/Jefferson County. 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 Louisville/Jefferson County, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Louisville/Jefferson County's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 4,340 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 260 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 Louisville/Jefferson County records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Louisville/Jefferson County, pool and plumbing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Louisville/Jefferson County'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 Louisville/Jefferson County trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Louisville/Jefferson County records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Louisville/Jefferson County that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are New Albany, Jeffersonville and Middletown. Each of them carries one trade.
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-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 Louisville/Jefferson County on this site are Oklahoma City above it and Richmond below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Louisville/Jefferson County's neighbours are South Bend-Mishawaka and Savannah. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Louisville/Jefferson County
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 187 | 1.37 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 260 | 1.90 | Not published | $30.02 |
| Flooring | 211 | 1.55 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 320 | 2.34 | Not published | $28.33 |
| Landscaping | 449 | 3.29 | Not published | |
| Painting | 160 | 1.17 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 88 | 0.64 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 222 | 1.63 | Not published | $35.91 |
| Pool | 32 | 0.23 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 231 | 1.69 | Not published | $23.64 |
| Other home service | 2,360 | 17.28 | 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 Louisville/Jefferson County with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| New Albany | other home service | 84 |
| Jeffersonville | other home service | 75 |
| Middletown | other home service | 55 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Kentucky carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.