Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV
The Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro area has 950 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 31.06 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 495 records and 52.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 11.
Against Maryland’s own rate per resident for each trade, Hagerstown-Martinsburg carries more pool, pest control, electrical contractors than the state average. It carries fewer flooring, painting, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 2 Maryland metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Hagerstown-Martinsburg's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is the densest 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 Maryland.
The facts for Hagerstown-Martinsburg
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 950
- Per 10,000 residents
- 31.06 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
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 916 independent, 9 franchise brand, 20 corporate owned, 5 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.73% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 305,902, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Hagerstown-Martinsburg
Other home service is Hagerstown-Martinsburg'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, Hagerstown-Martinsburg'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 Hagerstown-Martinsburg. The smallest of them here is pool.
Hagerstown-Martinsburg's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Hagerstown-Martinsburg 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, Hagerstown-Martinsburg carries fewer home-service records than Maryland as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against Maryland's own mix, Hagerstown-Martinsburg is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Flooring is thinner in Hagerstown-Martinsburg than across Maryland, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Hagerstown-Martinsburg's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.
No Hagerstown-Martinsburg 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 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC and plumbing in Hagerstown-Martinsburg. Of those, electrical pays the most and plumbing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Hagerstown-Martinsburg, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Hagerstown-Martinsburg's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 430 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 62 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. HVAC and plumbing follow it.
Of the Hagerstown-Martinsburg records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is other home service.
Within Hagerstown-Martinsburg, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Hagerstown-Martinsburg'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.
Painting is the Hagerstown-Martinsburg 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 Hagerstown-Martinsburg 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 roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.
No city inside Hagerstown-Martinsburg differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV 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 Hagerstown-Martinsburg on this site are Kingsport-Bristol above it and Waco below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Hagerstown-Martinsburg's neighbours are Oklahoma City and Kingsport-Bristol. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Hagerstown-Martinsburg
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 48 | 1.57 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 62 | 2.03 | Not published | $29.96 |
| Flooring | 33 | 1.08 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 64 | 2.09 | Not published | $28.08 |
| Landscaping | 98 | 3.20 | Not published | |
| Painting | 24 | 0.78 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 33 | 1.08 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 38 | 1.24 | Not published | $26.50 |
| Pool | 11 | 0.36 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 44 | 1.44 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 495 | 16.18 | 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.
Home-service contractors in Maryland carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.