Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro area has 10,612 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 37.83 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 5,800 records and 54.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 109.
Against North Carolina’s own rate per resident for each trade, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia carries more pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, plumbing, landscaping contractors than the state average.
Among the 9 North Carolina metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's largest trades: it is 5th of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is 7th of 9 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 7th of 9 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in North Carolina.
The facts for Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 10,612
- Per 10,000 residents
- 37.83 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 274
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 39
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 10,105 independent, 144 franchise brand, 255 corporate owned, 108 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.65% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.98% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,805,115, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia
Other home service is Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia'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, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. The smallest of them here is pool.
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 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, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia sits close to the North Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pool takes a larger share of Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia than of North Carolina, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's thinnest trade against North Carolina, 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, electrical, plumbing and roofing in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. Of those, HVAC pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 5,250 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 475 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, landscaping and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia'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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Indian Trail, Rock Hill, Huntersville, Gastonia and Cornelius, and 5 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia on this site are Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford above it and St. Louis below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's neighbours are Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek and Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 557 | 1.99 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 475 | 1.69 | Not published | $28.41 |
| Flooring | 571 | 2.04 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 643 | 2.29 | Not published | $28.77 |
| Landscaping | 877 | 3.13 | Not published | |
| Painting | 383 | 1.37 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 204 | 0.73 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 435 | 1.55 | Not published | $28.22 |
| Pool | 109 | 0.39 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 558 | 1.99 | Not published | $23.28 |
| Other home service | 5,800 | 20.68 | 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Trail | other home service | 159 |
| Rock Hill | other home service | 142 |
| Huntersville | other home service | 137 |
| Gastonia | other home service | 128 |
| Cornelius | other home service | 121 |
| Monroe | other home service | 104 |
| Salisbury | other home service | 78 |
| Statesville | other home service | 76 |
| Pineville | other home service | 57 |
| Stallings | other home service | 51 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in North Carolina carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.