Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Omaha, NE-IA
The Omaha, NE-IA metro area has 1,461 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 14.85 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 980 records and 67.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 13.
Against Nebraska’s own rate per resident for each trade, Omaha carries more pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, plumbing, landscaping contractors than the state average.
Among the 2 Nebraska metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Omaha's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for HVAC; and it is the thinnest of them for landscaping. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Nebraska.
The facts for Omaha
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,461
- Per 10,000 residents
- 14.85 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 167
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 16
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,389 independent, 36 franchise brand, 21 corporate owned, 15 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.34% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.98% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 983,969, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Omaha
Other home service is Omaha'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 HVAC, the next largest.
In order, Omaha's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Omaha. The smallest of them here is pool.
Omaha's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Omaha 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, Omaha sits close to the Nebraska rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Cleaning takes a larger share of Omaha than of Nebraska, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
At the other end, electrical is far thinner in Omaha than across Nebraska, by the widest margin of any trade in the table.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are Omaha's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Omaha 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 Omaha, 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 Omaha. 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 Omaha, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Omaha's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 3,530 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 43 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 Omaha records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in cleaning; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is flooring.
Within Omaha, electrical and roofing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Omaha'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.
Roofing is the Omaha trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Omaha 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.
No city inside Omaha differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.
Omaha, NE-IA 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 Omaha on this site are Urban Honolulu above it and Greenville-Anderson-Greer below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Omaha's neighbours are El Paso and Laredo. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Omaha
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 63 | 0.64 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 43 | 0.44 | Not published | $30.02 |
| Flooring | 41 | 0.42 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 78 | 0.79 | Not published | $30.08 |
| Landscaping | 76 | 0.77 | Not published | |
| Painting | 30 | 0.30 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 27 | 0.27 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 42 | 0.43 | Not published | $30.48 |
| Pool | 13 | 0.13 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 68 | 0.69 | Not published | $22.34 |
| Other home service | 980 | 9.96 | 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.
Home-service contractors in Nebraska carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.