Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Kansas City, MO-KS
The Kansas City, MO-KS metro area has 6,693 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 30.13 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 3,775 records and 56.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 45.
No trade in Kansas City runs meaningfully ahead of Missouri’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer HVAC, plumbing, electrical contractors than the state average.
Among the 3 Missouri metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Kansas City's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is the thinnest 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 Missouri.
The facts for Kansas City
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 6,693
- Per 10,000 residents
- 30.13 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 169
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 16
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 6,453 independent, 90 franchise brand, 90 corporate owned, 60 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.80% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.70% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,221,343, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Kansas City
Other home service is Kansas 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 landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Kansas City's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Kansas City. The smallest of them here is pool.
Kansas City's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Kansas City 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, Kansas City carries fewer home-service records than Missouri as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Kansas City against Missouri. Pool leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
HVAC is thinner in Kansas City than across Missouri, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Kansas City's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Kansas 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 Kansas 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 Kansas 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 Kansas City, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Kansas City's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 5,400 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 253 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.
Kansas City's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in flooring and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Kansas City, pool and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Kansas City'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.
Other home service is the Kansas City trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Kansas City records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and painting lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside Kansas City, the city of Kansas City itself and Olathe, Lee's Summit, Independence and Blue Springs differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own, along with 2 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Kansas City, MO-KS 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 Kansas City on this site are Cincinnati above it and Columbus below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Kansas City's neighbours are Des Moines-West Des Moines and Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Kansas City
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 264 | 1.19 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 253 | 1.14 | Not published | $36.95 |
| Flooring | 319 | 1.44 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 425 | 1.91 | Not published | $30.14 |
| Landscaping | 570 | 2.57 | Not published | |
| Painting | 214 | 0.96 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 170 | 0.77 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 289 | 1.30 | Not published | $36.61 |
| Pool | 45 | 0.20 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 369 | 1.66 | Not published | $28.09 |
| Other home service | 3,775 | 16.99 | 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 Kansas City with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City | other home service | 708 |
| Olathe | other home service | 257 |
| Lee's Summit | other home service | 210 |
| Independence | other home service | 159 |
| Blue Springs | other home service | 85 |
| Grandview | other home service | 64 |
| Liberty | other home service | 64 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Missouri carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.