Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Gulfport-Biloxi, MS
The Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area has 1,713 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 40.60 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 832 records and 48.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 27.
Against Mississippi’s own rate per resident for each trade, Gulfport-Biloxi carries more pool, cleaning, flooring contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 2 Mississippi metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Gulfport-Biloxi'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 densest of them for landscaping. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Mississippi.
The facts for Gulfport-Biloxi
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,713
- Per 10,000 residents
- 40.60 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 19
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 8
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,644 independent, 20 franchise brand, 37 corporate owned, 12 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.29% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.52% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 421,916, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Gulfport-Biloxi
Other home service is Gulfport-Biloxi's largest trade, and two of every five records here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as HVAC, the next largest.
In order, Gulfport-Biloxi's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and flooring. Other home service and HVAC alone reach half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Gulfport-Biloxi. The smallest of them here is pool.
Gulfport-Biloxi's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Gulfport-Biloxi 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, Gulfport-Biloxi carries far more home-service records than Mississippi as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against Mississippi's own mix, Gulfport-Biloxi is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Pest control is thinner in Gulfport-Biloxi than across Mississippi, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are Gulfport-Biloxi's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Gulfport-Biloxi 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 Gulfport-Biloxi, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical and HVAC in Gulfport-Biloxi. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Gulfport-Biloxi, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Gulfport-Biloxi's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,010 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 85 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 and HVAC follow it.
Of the Gulfport-Biloxi records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Gulfport-Biloxi, painting and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Gulfport-Biloxi's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Gulfport-Biloxi 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 Gulfport-Biloxi 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Gulfport-Biloxi, Biloxi, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Gulfport-Biloxi, MS sits inside Mississippi alone, so the labour market this page counts and the licensing regime that governs it are the same geography.
Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Gulfport-Biloxi on this site are Savannah above it and Asheville below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Gulfport-Biloxi's neighbours are Appleton and Chattanooga. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Gulfport-Biloxi
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 103 | 2.44 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 85 | 2.01 | Not published | $30.02 |
| Flooring | 112 | 2.65 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 185 | 4.38 | Not published | $23.19 |
| Landscaping | 120 | 2.84 | Not published | |
| Painting | 59 | 1.40 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 38 | 0.90 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 96 | 2.28 | Not published | $30.31 |
| Pool | 27 | 0.64 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 56 | 1.33 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 832 | 19.72 | 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.
Cities inside Gulfport-Biloxi with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Biloxi | other home service | 88 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Mississippi carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.