Home-service contractors in St. Louis, MO-IL

Other home service is St. Louis'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, St. Louis'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 St. Louis. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in St. Louis 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, St. Louis sits close to the Missouri rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Pool takes a larger share of St. Louis than of Missouri, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Even St. Louis's thinnest trade against Missouri, electrical, sits close to the state share.

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

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

Electrical carries St. Louis's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 5,920 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 414 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.

St. Louis's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in cleaning and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.

Within St. Louis, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of St. Louis's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Roofing holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Other home service is the St. Louis 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 St. Louis 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.

Inside St. Louis, the city of St. Louis itself and Chesterfield, Maryland Heights, Belleville and Fenton differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own, along with 7 more. Each of them carries one trade.

St. Louis, MO-IL 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 St. Louis on this site are Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia above it and San Antonio-New Braunfels below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, St. Louis's neighbours are Rockford and Providence-Warwick. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.