Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
The Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro area has 1,328 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 35.89 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 720 records and 54.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 9.
No trade in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton runs meaningfully ahead of North Carolina’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer cleaning, landscaping, pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 9 North Carolina metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton's largest trades: it is 6th of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is 8th of 9 for landscaping, in the bottom quarter; and it is 3rd 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,328
- Per 10,000 residents
- 35.89 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 21
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,286 independent, 9 franchise brand, 28 corporate owned, 5 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.59% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.81% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 370,030, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton
Other home service is Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton'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, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. The smallest of them here is pool.
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton sits close to the North Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton against North Carolina. HVAC leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Cleaning is thinner in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 570 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 74 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.
Of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton'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.
Cleaning is the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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 HVAC lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, Hickory, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton on this site are Fort Collins-Loveland above it and Atlantic City-Hammonton below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton's neighbours are Baltimore-Columbia-Towson and Charleston-North Charleston. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 54 | 1.46 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 74 | 2.00 | Not published | $25.83 |
| Flooring | 57 | 1.54 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 96 | 2.59 | Not published | $24.18 |
| Landscaping | 102 | 2.76 | Not published | |
| Painting | 53 | 1.43 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 24 | 0.65 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 69 | 1.86 | Not published | $24.68 |
| Pool | 9 | 0.24 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 70 | 1.89 | Not published | $22.51 |
| Other home service | 720 | 19.46 | 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Hickory | other home service | 143 |
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.