Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area has 55,704 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 28.57 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 31,765 records and 57.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 495.
Against New York’s own rate per resident for each trade, New York-Newark-Jersey City carries more pool 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City's largest trades: it is 7th of 8 for other home service, in the bottom quarter; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is 6th 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 55,704
- Per 10,000 residents
- 28.57 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 849
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 922
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 54,509 independent, 495 franchise brand, 493 corporate owned, 207 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.58% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.55% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 19,498,249, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about New York-Newark-Jersey City
Other home service is New York-Newark-Jersey City'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, New York-Newark-Jersey City's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in New York-Newark-Jersey City. The smallest of them here is pool.
New York-Newark-Jersey City's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in New York-Newark-Jersey City 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City sits close to the New York rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in New York-Newark-Jersey City against New York. Pool leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Even New York-Newark-Jersey City's thinnest trade against New York, roofing, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are New York-Newark-Jersey City's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No New York-Newark-Jersey City 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for New York-Newark-Jersey City, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries New York-Newark-Jersey City's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 36,550 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 3,395 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. HVAC, plumbing and roofing follow it.
New York-Newark-Jersey City's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in painting and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within New York-Newark-Jersey City, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of New York-Newark-Jersey City's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the New York-Newark-Jersey City trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
New York-Newark-Jersey City records first appearing and records flagged closed were close to level over the last twelve months, so the file held its size. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside New York-Newark-Jersey City that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are New York, Newark, Jersey City, Toms River and Paterson, and 54 more. New York carries the most trades of them.
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City is the largest metro area this site carries, immediately above Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, New York-Newark-Jersey City's neighbours are Lubbock and Trenton-Princeton. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in New York-Newark-Jersey City
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 2,335 | 1.20 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 3,395 | 1.74 | Not published | $37.99 |
| Flooring | 2,126 | 1.09 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 4,068 | 2.09 | Not published | $37.50 |
| Landscaping | 4,200 | 2.15 | Not published | |
| Painting | 1,831 | 0.94 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 1,218 | 0.62 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 2,574 | 1.32 | Not published | $37.79 |
| Pool | 495 | 0.25 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 1,697 | 0.87 | Not published | $36.73 |
| Other home service | 31,765 | 16.29 | 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City with their own page
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.