Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
The Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro area has 1,372 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 35.79 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 703 records and 51.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 7.
Against Louisiana’s own rate per resident for each trade, Shreveport-Bossier City carries more painting, cleaning, plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Louisiana metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Shreveport-Bossier City's largest trades: it is 3rd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 6 for HVAC, around the middle; and it is 3rd of 6 for landscaping, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Louisiana.
The facts for Shreveport-Bossier City
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,372
- Per 10,000 residents
- 35.79 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 25
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,309 independent, 16 franchise brand, 38 corporate owned, 9 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.36% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.97% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 383,295, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Shreveport-Bossier City
Other home service is Shreveport-Bossier City'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, Shreveport-Bossier City's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Shreveport-Bossier City. The smallest of them here is pool.
Shreveport-Bossier City's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Shreveport-Bossier City 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, Shreveport-Bossier City carries more home-service records than Louisiana as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Painting takes a larger share of Shreveport-Bossier City than of Louisiana, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Shreveport-Bossier City's thinnest trade against Louisiana, HVAC, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are Shreveport-Bossier City's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Shreveport-Bossier City 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 Shreveport-Bossier City, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Shreveport-Bossier City. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Shreveport-Bossier City, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Shreveport-Bossier City's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 800 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 68 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 Shreveport-Bossier City records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.
Within Shreveport-Bossier City, landscaping and plumbing are the most independently held trades and other home service the least.
Almost none of Shreveport-Bossier City's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Cleaning is the Shreveport-Bossier City 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 Shreveport-Bossier City 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 landscaping lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Shreveport-Bossier City that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Shreveport and Bossier City. Shreveport carries the most trades of them.
Shreveport-Bossier City, 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 Shreveport-Bossier City on this site are Spartanburg above it and Trenton-Princeton below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Shreveport-Bossier City's neighbours are Charleston-North Charleston and Columbus. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Shreveport-Bossier City
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 58 | 1.51 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 68 | 1.77 | Not published | $29.25 |
| Flooring | 58 | 1.51 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 129 | 3.37 | Not published | $28.19 |
| Landscaping | 102 | 2.66 | Not published | |
| Painting | 54 | 1.41 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 49 | 1.28 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 88 | 2.30 | Not published | $28.71 |
| Pool | 7 | 0.18 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 56 | 1.46 | Not published | $23.34 |
| Other home service | 703 | 18.34 | 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.
Cities inside Shreveport-Bossier City with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Shreveport | HVAC, other home service | 412 |
| Bossier City | other home service | 114 |
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.