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Home-service contractors in Duluth, MN-WI

The Duluth, MN-WI metro area has 1,220 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 43.32 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 732 records and 60.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 3.

Against Minnesota’s own rate per resident for each trade, Duluth carries more HVAC contractors than the state average. It carries fewer cleaning, landscaping, flooring contractors than the state average.

Among the 2 Minnesota metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Duluth'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 thinnest of them for landscaping. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Minnesota.

The facts for Duluth

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,220
Per 10,000 residents
43.32 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
20
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,191 independent, 6 franchise brand, 10 corporate owned, 13 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.49% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.98% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 281,603, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Duluth

Other home service is Duluth's largest trade, and three of every five records this site holds here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as HVAC, the next largest.

In order, Duluth's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Duluth. The smallest of them here is pool.

Duluth's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and cleaning. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

One Duluth 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, Duluth sits close to the Minnesota rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

HVAC takes a larger share of Duluth than of Minnesota, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Cleaning is thinner in Duluth than across Minnesota, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are Duluth's three densest trades, and cleaning its thinnest.

No Duluth 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 Duluth, 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 Duluth. 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 Duluth, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Duluth's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 680 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 58 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, roofing and HVAC follow it.

Of the Duluth records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Duluth, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and plumbing the least.

Almost none of Duluth'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.

Plumbing is the Duluth 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 Duluth 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.

Inside Duluth, the city of Duluth itself and Superior differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.

Duluth, MN-WI 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 Duluth on this site are San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles above it and College Station-Bryan below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Duluth's neighbours are Worcester and Ocala. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Duluth

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning280.99Not published
Electrical582.06Not published$39.76
Flooring431.53Not published
HVAC973.44Not published$36.40
Landscaping863.05Not published
Painting371.31Not published
Pest control90.32Not published
Plumbing602.13Not published$40.89
Pool30.11Not published
Roofing672.38Not published$35.03
Other home service73225.99Not 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 Duluth with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Duluthother home service159
Superiorother home service72

The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.

Home-service contractors in Minnesota carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.