Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Fargo, ND-MN
The Fargo, ND-MN metro area has 1,116 home-service contractors across 10 trades, or 42.49 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 654 records and 58.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pest control, with 7.
Against North Dakota’s own rate per resident for each trade, Fargo carries more cleaning, landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer HVAC, electrical contractors than the state average.
The facts for Fargo
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,116
- Per 10,000 residents
- 42.49 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 10 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 20
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 1
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,073 independent, 18 franchise brand, 12 corporate owned, 13 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.71% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.16% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 262,620, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Fargo
Other home service is Fargo'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, Fargo's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
Fargo carries no record at all under pool, so that row reads zero rather than small. The smallest trade that does carry records here is pest control.
Fargo's three smallest trades are pest control, roofing and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Pest control and pool all fall below the record floor a trade page has to clear in Fargo, so those 2 are answered on this page instead. Their counts in the table are unchanged.
Per resident, Fargo sits close to the North Dakota rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Cleaning takes a larger share of Fargo than of North Dakota, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
HVAC is thinner in Fargo than across North Dakota, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Fargo's three densest trades, and roofing its thinnest.
No Fargo 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 Fargo, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Fargo. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting and pest control carry no wage figure for Fargo, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Fargo's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 920 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 57 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 Fargo records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in flooring; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is roofing.
Within Fargo, electrical and painting are the most independently held trades and roofing the least.
Almost none of Fargo'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 Fargo 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 Fargo records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Fargo that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are West Fargo and Moorhead. Each of them carries one trade.
Fargo, ND-MN 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 Fargo on this site are Lynchburg above it and Kalamazoo-Portage below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Fargo's neighbours are Asheville and Greensboro-High Point. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Fargo
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 51 | 1.94 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 57 | 2.17 | Not published | $36.99 |
| Flooring | 56 | 2.13 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 62 | 2.36 | Not published | $36.50 |
| Landscaping | 105 | 4.00 | Not published | |
| Painting | 45 | 1.71 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 7 | 0.27 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 41 | 1.56 | Not published | $30.46 |
| Pool | 0 | 0.00 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 38 | 1.45 | Not published | $29.62 |
| Other home service | 654 | 24.90 | 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.
2 trades, pest control, pool, have fewer than 8 publishable records here, so those 2 old trade URLs for this metro redirect here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Cities inside Fargo with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| West Fargo | other home service | 120 |
| Moorhead | other home service | 80 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in North Dakota carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.