Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area has 14,799 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 39.87 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 8,194 records and 55.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 61.
Against Minnesota’s own rate per resident for each trade, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington carries more pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, HVAC, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 2 Minnesota metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington'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 densest of them for flooring. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Minnesota.
The facts for Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 14,799
- Per 10,000 residents
- 39.87 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 293
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 39
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 14,424 independent, 179 franchise brand, 100 corporate owned, 96 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.97% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.94% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 3,712,020, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
Other home service is Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington'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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. The smallest of them here is pool.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington sits close to the Minnesota rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Against Minnesota's own mix, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Electrical is thinner in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington than across Minnesota, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and flooring are Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 8,810 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 632 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in cleaning; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is pest control.
Within Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington'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.
Pool is the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Minneapolis, St. Paul, Burnsville, Blaine and Maple Grove, and 22 more.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington on this site are Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue above it and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's neighbours are Canton-Massillon and Cedar Rapids. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 661 | 1.78 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 632 | 1.70 | Not published | $39.37 |
| Flooring | 782 | 2.11 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 761 | 2.05 | Not published | $37.25 |
| Landscaping | 1,591 | 4.29 | Not published | |
| Painting | 622 | 1.68 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 115 | 0.31 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 623 | 1.68 | Not published | $48.86 |
| Pool | 61 | 0.16 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 757 | 2.04 | Not published | $36.25 |
| Other home service | 8,194 | 22.07 | 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.
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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis | cleaning, other home service | 699 |
| St. Paul | landscaping, other home service | 479 |
| Burnsville | other home service | 203 |
| Blaine | other home service | 164 |
| Maple Grove | other home service | 160 |
| Plymouth | other home service | 159 |
| Lakeville | other home service | 150 |
| Minnetonka | other home service | 140 |
| Eden Prairie | other home service | 121 |
| Woodbury | other home service | 120 |
| Edina | other home service | 115 |
| Coon Rapids | other home service | 97 |
| Ramsey | other home service | 95 |
| Apple Valley | other home service | 85 |
| Golden Valley | other home service | 83 |
| Savage | other home service | 79 |
| Elk River | other home service | 78 |
| Maplewood | other home service | 74 |
| Roseville | other home service | 73 |
| Andover | other home service | 67 |
| Chaska | other home service | 64 |
| Shakopee | other home service | 64 |
| Prior Lake | other home service | 63 |
| Oakdale | other home service | 62 |
| Chanhassen | other home service | 61 |
| New Brighton | other home service | 56 |
| Cottage Grove | other home service | 50 |
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.