Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Greensboro-High Point, NC
The Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area has 3,348 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 42.39 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,698 records and 50.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 22.
Against North Carolina’s own rate per resident for each trade, Greensboro-High Point carries more roofing, HVAC, painting contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 9 North Carolina metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Greensboro-High Point's largest trades: it is 4th of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 9 for landscaping, inside the top quarter; and it is 2nd of 9 for HVAC, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in North Carolina.
The facts for Greensboro-High Point
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 3,348
- Per 10,000 residents
- 42.39 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 51
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 7
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 3,197 independent, 47 franchise brand, 80 corporate owned, 24 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.50% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.02% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 789,842, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Greensboro-High Point
Other home service is Greensboro-High Point'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, Greensboro-High Point'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 Greensboro-High Point. The smallest of them here is pool.
Greensboro-High Point's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Greensboro-High Point 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, Greensboro-High Point sits close to the North Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Roofing takes a larger share of Greensboro-High Point than of North Carolina, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Pool is thinner in Greensboro-High Point than across North Carolina, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Greensboro-High Point's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Greensboro-High Point 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 Greensboro-High Point, 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 Greensboro-High Point. 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 Greensboro-High Point, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Greensboro-High Point's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,990 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 150 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 Greensboro-High Point records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is pest control.
Within Greensboro-High Point, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Greensboro-High Point'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.
Pest control is the Greensboro-High Point 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 Greensboro-High Point records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Greensboro-High Point that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Greensboro, High Point and Asheboro. Greensboro carries the most trades of them.
Greensboro-High Point, NC sits inside North Carolina 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 Greensboro-High Point on this site are Stockton-Lodi above it and Colorado Springs below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Greensboro-High Point's neighbours are Fargo and Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Greensboro-High Point
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 176 | 2.23 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 150 | 1.90 | Not published | $28.07 |
| Flooring | 174 | 2.20 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 244 | 3.09 | Not published | $28.14 |
| Landscaping | 343 | 4.34 | Not published | |
| Painting | 140 | 1.77 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 59 | 0.75 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 157 | 1.99 | Not published | $27.65 |
| Pool | 22 | 0.28 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 185 | 2.34 | Not published | $23.61 |
| Other home service | 1,698 | 21.50 | 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 Greensboro-High Point with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Greensboro | landscaping, other home service | 732 |
| High Point | other home service | 225 |
| Asheboro | other home service | 57 |
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.