State fact page
Home-service contractors in New Mexico
New Mexico has 6,096 home-service contractors on record across 11 trades, or 28.83 per 10,000 residents.
New Mexico contractors on this site come from open place data only: license verification is not yet available on this site for this state. The counts on this page describe what the open data holds, and say nothing about whether any business holds a state license. Check that at the licensing body below.
That count is the sum of the trade rows further down, and it is the full deduplicated set for New Mexico. Each business is counted once, under its primary trade, and the New Mexico total includes records that are unpublishable or residentially screened. New Mexico records that are closed, flagged, or missing a city sit inside that number but do not publish as pages. Every figure below carries the date it was true and the file it came from.
The facts
- Home-service contractors in New Mexico
- 6,096Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026The sum of this state’s trade rows. Each row’s own universe, as the facts table defines it: All deduped entities whose primary trade is this trade, including records that are unpublishable or residential-screened; each entity counted once, so the trade rows partition the area entity total.
- Per 10,000 residents
- 28.83 per 10,000Population 2,114,371, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 134Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026This counts records first appearing in Foursquare Open Source Places, not New Mexico businesses first opening. A record can appear years after a business does. Our own first-seen series becomes the primary measure after three snapshots.
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 13Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026This counts New Mexico records flagged closed in Foursquare Open Source Places, not confirmed closures of New Mexico businesses. The flag is a soft signal contributed upstream.
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 5,899 independent, 64 franchise brand, 95 corporate owned, 38 awaiting chain reviewFoursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026Chain status is computed from how many locations a normalized name holds nationally. Brands at the threshold that our seed list does not cover sit in the review bucket and are labeled that way, never as independent.
- Licensed share
- Not published for this stateState license files, as of September 2, 2026Licensed share is computed per state per trade and only where that state's license file is in the verified layer. It is shown as not published, never as zero. The verified layer currently covers California, Florida, and Texas.
- Universe quality
- 0.47% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.48% carry no street addressFoursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026Both figures are for New Mexico, weighted across its trades. A New Mexico record with no street address still publishes when a city and coordinates are present.
Metro areas in New Mexico
The metro fact pages New Mexico owns, by residents. Each one carries the same counts for one trade in one metro area, and a city page wherever a city inside New Mexico stands on its own.
Contractors by trade
Ordered alphabetically by trade. Each row is a distinct set of entities: a New Mexico business is counted once, under its primary trade, so the rows add up to the New Mexico total above.
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 residents | BLS occupation, title as published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 237 | 1.12 | No BLS occupation mapped to this trade |
| Electrical | 413 | 1.95 | Electricians (SOC 47-2111) |
| Flooring | 340 | 1.61 | No BLS occupation mapped to this trade |
| HVAC | 504 | 2.38 | Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers (SOC 49-9021) |
| Landscaping | 384 | 1.82 | No BLS occupation mapped to this trade |
| Other home services | 3,224 | 15.25 | No BLS occupation mapped to this trade |
| Painting | 170 | 0.80 | No BLS occupation mapped to this trade |
| Pest control | 169 | 0.80 | No BLS occupation mapped to this trade |
| Plumbing | 310 | 1.47 | Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters (SOC 47-2152) |
| Pool | 45 | 0.21 | No BLS occupation mapped to this trade |
| Roofing | 300 | 1.42 | Roofers (SOC 47-2181) |
Employment and wage figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics are published by metropolitan area in the extract loaded here, so they appear on New Mexico’s metro pages rather than on this one. The occupation title above is the Bureau’s own, reproduced exactly.
What these numbers say about New Mexico
Every sentence below is read off the rows above and off the same rows for the other fifty states. Nothing here is written about New Mexico by hand: the wording is chosen by where New Mexico’s own measurement falls, so a state that is ordinary on a measure says so.
New Mexico's largest trade by record count is other home service, and it is dominant rather than merely first: more than a quarter of every home-service record this site holds for New Mexico sits in that one trade, with HVAC the next largest. A concentrated mix like this usually says more about how the source data categorises a business than about how New Mexico homeowners spend.
In order, New Mexico's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, electrical and landscaping. Other home service alone account for half of every record on this page, which is a narrow base for a statewide figure.
Every one of the eleven trades this site counts carries at least one record in New Mexico, which is not true of every state. The smallest of them here is pool, and a small row is a small row: it is not evidence that New Mexico is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.
At the other end of the same ordering, New Mexico's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of New Mexico, so most of their metro hub pages clear this site's publish floor and publish.
Measured against the national mix, New Mexico is heaviest in electrical: that trade takes a far larger share of New Mexico's records than it takes of the country's. Climate, housing stock and how a state's own businesses describe themselves all feed that, and this page separates none of them.
Pool is thinner in New Mexico than it is nationally, the mirror of the lean above. Read it as a difference in how businesses here are categorised before reading it as a difference in what they do.
Per resident, New Mexico carries fewer home-service records than the country does, in the middle of the fifty-one this site counts. A thinner state usually means fewer competing quotes in the smaller markets and, in a busy season, a longer wait.
By raw record count New Mexico is one of the smaller states in this corpus. Small totals move proportionally more between releases, so a change in a New Mexico row is weaker evidence of a change on the ground than the same change in a large state.
New Mexico's split between independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records is close to the national one, so the chain mix on this page is typical rather than distinctive.
Address completeness in New Mexico is close to the national average, so the lists linked from this page are neither unusually well nor unusually poorly addressed.
Almost none of New Mexico's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts on this page describe nearly the whole state rather than most of it. Electrical holds what little of the review bucket New Mexico has.
Read per resident rather than by count, the ordering does not change at the top: other home service is both the largest trade in New Mexico and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.
Flooring, landscaping, plumbing, pool and roofing are the New Mexico trades in which every record is already classified as independent, franchise brand or corporate owned, with none left in review. The other rows on this page carry at least one name the chain rule has not finished with.
Over the last twelve months more New Mexico records first appeared than were flagged closed, so the file for this state grew; cleaning added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags. A record appears when the source learns about a business, which is not the same event as a business opening.
Cleaning, Flooring, Landscaping, Other home service, Painting, Pest control and Pool carry no Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation in the extract loaded here, so those New Mexico rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other New Mexico row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.
New Mexico owns one metro fact page, for Albuquerque, and every trade hub beneath it. A metro is listed under the state its name leads with, so a metro area that crosses into New Mexico but is named for its neighbour appears on that neighbour's page instead.
Ordered by records per resident, New Mexico sits between Texas above it and Arkansas below it. Those two are the states this page's per-resident rate is closest to, and they are named because a rank on its own says less than the company it keeps.
Ordered by total records rather than by rate, New Mexico's neighbours are Maine and Montana. A state can sit high on one of these two orderings and low on the other, and reading both is the point of naming them.
Of the New Mexico records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands, and they concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade in New Mexico is flooring.
Within New Mexico, pool is the most independently held trade and flooring the least. That gap is the reason the statewide independent share is a summary rather than a description: a homeowner hiring in flooring meets a different market from one hiring in pool.
Painting is the New Mexico trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on a painting page in New Mexico is thinner in addresses than a pool one and no less real for it.
New Mexico is outside the verified-licence layer, so no New Mexico row above carries a licensed share and no New Mexico profile carries a licence fact. The counts are still measured; what is absent is the join between them and a licence file, which is why the licensed-share row reads as not published rather than as zero.
Until that changes, New Mexico Construction Industries Division is where a New Mexico licence is checked and New Mexico Department of Justice is where a New Mexico homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a New Mexico contractor and resolves none.
Taking the largest row on its own: other home service is about as large a part of New Mexico as it is of the country, so New Mexico leads with that trade for the same reason the country does.
Where to check a contractor in New Mexico
- Licensing body
- New Mexico state agency, linked directly
- Consumer protection
- New Mexico consumer-protection resource, linked directlyThis site takes no complaints and resolves no disputes. It is a directory built from public records, and this is where a New Mexico homeowner takes a problem with a New Mexico contractor.
Nothing on this page is a rating, an endorsement, or a recommendation, and no figure here is an assessment of any individual New Mexicobusiness. How every New Mexico number is counted, and where every source comes from, is on the methodology page.