Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in New Orleans-Metairie, LA
The New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro area has 2,840 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 29.52 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,501 records and 52.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 33.
No trade in New Orleans-Metairie runs meaningfully ahead of Louisiana’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer landscaping, pest control contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Louisiana metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in New Orleans-Metairie's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 4th of 6 for HVAC, around the middle; and it is the thinnest of them for landscaping. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Louisiana.
The facts for New Orleans-Metairie
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,840
- Per 10,000 residents
- 29.52 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 59
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 12
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,713 independent, 46 franchise brand, 63 corporate owned, 18 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.80% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.99% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 962,165, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about New Orleans-Metairie
Other home service is New Orleans-Metairie'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 HVAC, the next largest.
In order, New Orleans-Metairie's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in New Orleans-Metairie. The smallest of them here is pool.
New Orleans-Metairie's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in New Orleans-Metairie 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, New Orleans-Metairie sits close to the Louisiana rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pool takes a larger share of New Orleans-Metairie than of Louisiana, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Landscaping is thinner in New Orleans-Metairie than across Louisiana, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are New Orleans-Metairie's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No New Orleans-Metairie 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 New Orleans-Metairie, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, electrical and plumbing in New Orleans-Metairie. Of those, HVAC pays the most and plumbing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for New Orleans-Metairie, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries New Orleans-Metairie's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,240 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 158 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 and HVAC follow it.
Of the New Orleans-Metairie records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within New Orleans-Metairie, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of New Orleans-Metairie's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the New Orleans-Metairie 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 New Orleans-Metairie 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 painting lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside New Orleans-Metairie that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are New Orleans and Metairie. Each of them carries one trade.
New Orleans-Metairie, LA sits inside Louisiana 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 New Orleans-Metairie on this site are Greenville-Anderson-Greer above it and Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, New Orleans-Metairie's neighbours are San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and Lake Charles. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in New Orleans-Metairie
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 106 | 1.10 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 158 | 1.64 | Not published | $30.04 |
| Flooring | 116 | 1.21 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 312 | 3.24 | Not published | $30.53 |
| Landscaping | 159 | 1.65 | Not published | |
| Painting | 93 | 0.97 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 76 | 0.79 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 153 | 1.59 | Not published | $30.03 |
| Pool | 33 | 0.34 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 133 | 1.38 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 1,501 | 15.60 | Not published |
Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. 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 New Orleans-Metairie with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| New Orleans | other home service | 484 |
| Metairie | other home service | 237 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Louisiana carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.