Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Raleigh-Cary, NC
The Raleigh-Cary, NC metro area has 6,324 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 41.90 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 3,618 records and 57.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 34.
Against North Carolina’s own rate per resident for each trade, Raleigh-Cary carries more painting, cleaning, other home service contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 9 North Carolina metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Raleigh-Cary's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is 6th of 9 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 5th 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 Raleigh-Cary
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 6,324
- Per 10,000 residents
- 41.90 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 139
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 14
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 5,984 independent, 97 franchise brand, 170 corporate owned, 73 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.74% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.96% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,509,231, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Raleigh-Cary
Other home service is Raleigh-Cary'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, Raleigh-Cary's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Raleigh-Cary. The smallest of them here is pool.
Raleigh-Cary's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Raleigh-Cary 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, Raleigh-Cary sits close to the North Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Raleigh-Cary against North Carolina. Painting leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Pool is thinner in Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing in Raleigh-Cary. 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 Raleigh-Cary, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Raleigh-Cary's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 3,740 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 271 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 Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Raleigh-Cary'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 Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Raleigh, Cary, Garner, Wake Forest and Holly Springs, and 2 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Raleigh-Cary, 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 Raleigh-Cary on this site are Milwaukee-Waukesha above it and Oklahoma City below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Raleigh-Cary's neighbours are New Haven and Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Raleigh-Cary
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 340 | 2.25 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 271 | 1.80 | Not published | $27.31 |
| Flooring | 315 | 2.09 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 360 | 2.39 | Not published | $28.32 |
| Landscaping | 513 | 3.40 | Not published | |
| Painting | 273 | 1.81 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 102 | 0.68 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 256 | 1.70 | Not published | $29.10 |
| Pool | 34 | 0.23 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 242 | 1.60 | Not published | $24.39 |
| Other home service | 3,618 | 23.97 | 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 Raleigh-Cary with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Raleigh | other home service | 1,327 |
| Cary | other home service | 378 |
| Garner | other home service | 114 |
| Wake Forest | other home service | 112 |
| Holly Springs | other home service | 83 |
| Morrisville | other home service | 67 |
| Fuquay-Varina | other home service | 66 |
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.