Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA
The Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA metro area has 1,247 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 45.25 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 671 records and 53.8% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 13.
Against Louisiana’s own rate per resident for each trade, Slidell-Mandeville-Covington carries more landscaping, flooring, pool contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 6 Louisiana metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Slidell-Mandeville-Covington's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for HVAC; and it is the densest of them for landscaping. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Louisiana.
The facts for Slidell-Mandeville-Covington
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,247
- Per 10,000 residents
- 45.25 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 22
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 1
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,205 independent, 19 franchise brand, 14 corporate owned, 9 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.62% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.81% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 275,583, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Slidell-Mandeville-Covington
Other home service is Slidell-Mandeville-Covington'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, Slidell-Mandeville-Covington's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Slidell-Mandeville-Covington. The smallest of them here is pool.
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Slidell-Mandeville-Covington 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, Slidell-Mandeville-Covington carries more home-service records than Louisiana as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Landscaping takes a larger share of Slidell-Mandeville-Covington than of Louisiana, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Slidell-Mandeville-Covington 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 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.
No Slidell-Mandeville-Covington 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 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, HVAC and electrical in Slidell-Mandeville-Covington. Of those, plumbing pays the most and electrical the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Plumbing carries Slidell-Mandeville-Covington's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 340 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 52 plumbing 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. Electrical and HVAC follow it.
Of the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in flooring; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is painting.
Within Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of Slidell-Mandeville-Covington'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.
Cleaning is the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington 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 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington 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 other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, Mandeville, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, 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 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington on this site are Cedar Rapids above it and Amarillo below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Slidell-Mandeville-Covington's neighbours are Wilmington and Boston-Cambridge-Newton. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Slidell-Mandeville-Covington
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 44 | 1.60 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 53 | 1.92 | Not published | $27.25 |
| Flooring | 54 | 1.96 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 124 | 4.50 | Not published | $27.56 |
| Landscaping | 118 | 4.28 | Not published | |
| Painting | 34 | 1.23 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 39 | 1.42 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 52 | 1.89 | Not published | $28.25 |
| Pool | 13 | 0.47 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 45 | 1.63 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 671 | 24.35 | 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 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Mandeville | other home service | 54 |
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.