Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
The Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area has 3,449 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 29.85 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,833 records and 53.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 17.
Against New York’s own rate per resident for each trade, Buffalo-Cheektowaga carries more roofing, flooring, landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, electrical, pest control contractors than the state average.
Among the 8 New York metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Buffalo-Cheektowaga's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 5th of 8 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 3rd of 8 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in New York.
The facts for Buffalo-Cheektowaga
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 3,449
- Per 10,000 residents
- 29.85 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 64
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 13
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 3,333 independent, 42 franchise brand, 60 corporate owned, 14 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 1.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.84% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,155,604, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Buffalo-Cheektowaga
Other home service is Buffalo-Cheektowaga'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, Buffalo-Cheektowaga's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Buffalo-Cheektowaga. The smallest of them here is pool.
Buffalo-Cheektowaga's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and cleaning. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Buffalo-Cheektowaga 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, Buffalo-Cheektowaga sits close to the New York rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Against New York's own mix, Buffalo-Cheektowaga is heaviest in roofing: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Electrical is thinner in Buffalo-Cheektowaga 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 HVAC are Buffalo-Cheektowaga's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Buffalo-Cheektowaga 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 Buffalo-Cheektowaga, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, roofing and HVAC in Buffalo-Cheektowaga. Of those, electrical pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Buffalo-Cheektowaga, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Buffalo-Cheektowaga's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,340 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 144 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 Buffalo-Cheektowaga records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Buffalo-Cheektowaga, landscaping and roofing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Buffalo-Cheektowaga's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Buffalo-Cheektowaga 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 Buffalo-Cheektowaga 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 roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Buffalo-Cheektowaga that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Buffalo, Cheektowaga and Tonawanda Town. Each of them carries one trade.
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, 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 Buffalo-Cheektowaga on this site are Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood above it and Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Buffalo-Cheektowaga's neighbours are Montgomery and Utica-Rome. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Buffalo-Cheektowaga
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 125 | 1.08 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 144 | 1.25 | Not published | $37.47 |
| Flooring | 183 | 1.58 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 278 | 2.41 | Not published | $29.89 |
| Landscaping | 350 | 3.03 | Not published | |
| Painting | 134 | 1.16 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 55 | 0.48 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 163 | 1.41 | Not published | $34.73 |
| Pool | 17 | 0.15 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 167 | 1.45 | Not published | $30.09 |
| Other home service | 1,833 | 15.86 | 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 Buffalo-Cheektowaga with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | other home service | 310 |
| Cheektowaga | other home service | 131 |
| Tonawanda Town | other home service | 90 |
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.