Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Lincoln, NE
The Lincoln, NE metro area has 588 home-service contractors across 10 trades, or 17.07 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 388 records and 66.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pest control, with 11.
Against Nebraska’s own rate per resident for each trade, Lincoln carries more cleaning, pest control, flooring contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing, electrical contractors than the state average.
Among the 2 Nebraska metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Lincoln's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is the densest of them for cleaning. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Nebraska.
The facts for Lincoln
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 588
- Per 10,000 residents
- 17.07 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 10 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 57
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 571 independent, 7 franchise brand, 9 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.17% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.55% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 344,387, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Lincoln
Other home service is Lincoln's largest trade, and three of every five records this site holds here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Lincoln's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, cleaning and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
Lincoln 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.
Lincoln's three smallest trades are pest control, painting and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Lincoln trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.
Per resident, Lincoln sits close to the Nebraska rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Against Nebraska's own mix, Lincoln is heaviest in cleaning: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Electrical is thinner in Lincoln than across Nebraska, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and cleaning are Lincoln's three densest trades, and electrical its thinnest.
No Lincoln 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 Lincoln, 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 Lincoln. 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 Lincoln, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Lincoln's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,020 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 22 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and other home service the least.
Almost none of Lincoln's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Other home service holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Cleaning is the Lincoln 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 Lincoln records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. HVAC added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
No city inside Lincoln differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.
Lincoln, NE sits inside Nebraska 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 Lincoln on this site are Gainesville above it and Clarksville below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Lincoln's neighbours are Bakersfield-Delano and El Paso. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Lincoln
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 32 | 0.93 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 22 | 0.64 | Not published | $29.17 |
| Flooring | 18 | 0.52 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 27 | 0.78 | Not published | $28.53 |
| Landscaping | 38 | 1.10 | Not published | |
| Painting | 14 | 0.41 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 11 | 0.32 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 15 | 0.44 | Not published | $29.17 |
| Pool | 0 | 0.00 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 23 | 0.67 | Not published | $22.77 |
| Other home service | 388 | 11.27 | 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.
One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Home-service contractors in Nebraska carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.