Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
The Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro area has 3,066 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 33.89 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,648 records and 53.8% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 20.
Against New York’s own rate per resident for each trade, Albany-Schenectady-Troy carries more landscaping, roofing, cleaning contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 8 New York metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Albany-Schenectady-Troy's largest trades: it is 4th of 8 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 8 for landscaping, inside the top quarter; and it is 2nd of 8 for electrical, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in New York.
The facts for Albany-Schenectady-Troy
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 3,066
- Per 10,000 residents
- 33.89 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 37
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 8
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,945 independent, 41 franchise brand, 55 corporate owned, 25 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.45% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.95% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 904,682, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Albany-Schenectady-Troy
Other home service is Albany-Schenectady-Troy'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, Albany-Schenectady-Troy's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, electrical and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Albany-Schenectady-Troy. The smallest of them here is pool.
Albany-Schenectady-Troy's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Albany-Schenectady-Troy 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, Albany-Schenectady-Troy carries more home-service records than New York as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Landscaping takes a larger share of Albany-Schenectady-Troy than of New York, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Pest control is thinner in Albany-Schenectady-Troy than across New York, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and electrical are Albany-Schenectady-Troy's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Albany-Schenectady-Troy 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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Albany-Schenectady-Troy. 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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Albany-Schenectady-Troy's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,820 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 208 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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Albany-Schenectady-Troy, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Albany-Schenectady-Troy'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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Albany-Schenectady-Troy 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 plumbing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Albany-Schenectady-Troy that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Saratoga Springs and Schenectady. Each of them carries one trade.
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY sits inside New York 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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy on this site are North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota above it and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Albany-Schenectady-Troy's neighbours are Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard and Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Albany-Schenectady-Troy
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 143 | 1.58 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 208 | 2.30 | Not published | $36.01 |
| Flooring | 138 | 1.53 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 185 | 2.04 | Not published | $31.75 |
| Landscaping | 334 | 3.69 | Not published | |
| Painting | 100 | 1.11 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 50 | 0.55 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 117 | 1.29 | Not published | $37.24 |
| Pool | 20 | 0.22 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 123 | 1.36 | Not published | $30.73 |
| Other home service | 1,648 | 18.22 | 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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Saratoga Springs | other home service | 73 |
| Schenectady | other home service | 58 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in New York carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.