Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Winston-Salem, NC
The Winston-Salem, NC metro area has 2,646 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.04 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,349 records and 51.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 16.
Against North Carolina’s own rate per resident for each trade, Winston-Salem carries more plumbing, landscaping 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 Winston-Salem's largest trades: it is 7th of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is 4th of 9 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 4th 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 Winston-Salem
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,646
- Per 10,000 residents
- 38.04 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 43
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 7
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,544 independent, 40 franchise brand, 51 corporate owned, 11 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.71% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.98% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 695,630, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Winston-Salem
Other home service is Winston-Salem'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, Winston-Salem's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Winston-Salem. The smallest of them here is pool.
Winston-Salem's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Winston-Salem 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, Winston-Salem sits close to the North Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Plumbing takes a larger share of Winston-Salem than of North Carolina, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Winston-Salem's thinnest trade against North Carolina, roofing, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Winston-Salem's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Winston-Salem 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 Winston-Salem, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, roofing and plumbing in Winston-Salem. Of those, electrical pays the most and plumbing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Winston-Salem, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Winston-Salem's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,120 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 130 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 Winston-Salem records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Winston-Salem, electrical and plumbing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Winston-Salem's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Pest control is the Winston-Salem 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 Winston-Salem 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.
Inside Winston-Salem, the city of Winston-Salem itself and Kernersville differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own. Winston-Salem carries the most trades of them.
Winston-Salem, 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 Winston-Salem on this site are Akron above it and Madison below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Winston-Salem's neighbours are Cincinnati and Reading. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Winston-Salem
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 124 | 1.78 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 130 | 1.87 | Not published | $26.97 |
| Flooring | 145 | 2.08 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 178 | 2.56 | Not published | $26.61 |
| Landscaping | 295 | 4.24 | Not published | |
| Painting | 95 | 1.37 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 49 | 0.70 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 148 | 2.13 | Not published | $23.67 |
| Pool | 16 | 0.23 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 117 | 1.68 | Not published | $23.69 |
| Other home service | 1,349 | 19.39 | 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 Winston-Salem with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Winston-Salem | landscaping, other home service | 484 |
| Kernersville | other home service | 95 |
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.