Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Jackson, MS
The Jackson, MS metro area has 1,698 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 27.82 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 874 records and 51.5% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 15.
Against Mississippi’s own rate per resident for each trade, Jackson carries more roofing, landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 2 Mississippi metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Jackson's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is the thinnest 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 Mississippi.
The facts for Jackson
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,698
- Per 10,000 residents
- 27.82 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 26
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,616 independent, 29 franchise brand, 41 corporate owned, 12 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.35% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.53% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 610,257, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Jackson
Other home service is Jackson'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 HVAC, the next largest.
In order, Jackson'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 Jackson. The smallest of them here is pool.
Jackson's three smallest trades are pool, painting and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Jackson 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, Jackson sits close to the Mississippi rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Roofing takes a larger share of Jackson than of Mississippi, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Jackson 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 Jackson's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.
No Jackson 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 Jackson, 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 Jackson. 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 Jackson, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Jackson's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,210 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 89 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. HVAC, plumbing and roofing follow it.
Of the Jackson records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Jackson, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and painting the least.
Almost none of Jackson's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Cleaning holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Jackson trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Jackson 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 HVAC lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside Jackson, the city of Jackson itself and Ridgeland and Pearl differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Each of them carries one trade.
Jackson, 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 Jackson on this site are Augusta-Richmond County above it and Durham-Chapel Hill below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Jackson's neighbours are San Antonio-New Braunfels and Corpus Christi. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Jackson
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 66 | 1.08 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 89 | 1.46 | Not published | $25.15 |
| Flooring | 89 | 1.46 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 159 | 2.61 | Not published | $25.03 |
| Landscaping | 144 | 2.36 | Not published | |
| Painting | 44 | 0.72 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 60 | 0.98 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 59 | 0.97 | Not published | $27.48 |
| Pool | 15 | 0.25 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 99 | 1.62 | Not published | $21.56 |
| Other home service | 874 | 14.32 | 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 Jackson with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson | other home service | 249 |
| Ridgeland | other home service | 84 |
| Pearl | other home service | 52 |
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.