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Home-service contractors in Utica-Rome, NY

The Utica-Rome, NY metro area has 855 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 29.79 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 470 records and 55.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 7.

Against New York’s own rate per resident for each trade, Utica-Rome carries more roofing, flooring, HVAC contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pest control, electrical, plumbing contractors than the state average.

Among the 8 New York metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Utica-Rome's largest trades: it is 6th of 8 for other home service, around the middle; it is 7th of 8 for landscaping, in the bottom quarter; and it is 2nd of 8 for HVAC, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in New York.

The facts for Utica-Rome

Home-service contractors in this metro
855
Per 10,000 residents
29.79 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
4
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Independent, franchise, corporate
830 independent, 6 franchise brand, 15 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.68% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.64% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 287,039, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Utica-Rome

Other home service is Utica-Rome'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, Utica-Rome's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Utica-Rome. The smallest of them here is pool.

Utica-Rome's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

One Utica-Rome trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.

Per resident, Utica-Rome sits close to the New York rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Against New York's own mix, Utica-Rome is heaviest in roofing: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Electrical is thinner in Utica-Rome 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 Utica-Rome's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.

No Utica-Rome 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 Utica-Rome, 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 Utica-Rome. 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 Utica-Rome, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Utica-Rome's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 270 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 37 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.

Of the Utica-Rome records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is painting.

Within Utica-Rome, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and roofing the least.

Almost none of Utica-Rome'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.

Cleaning is the Utica-Rome 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 Utica-Rome records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Plumbing added the largest share of new records and HVAC lost the largest share to closed flags.

No city inside Utica-Rome differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.

Utica-Rome, 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 Utica-Rome on this site are Merced above it and San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Utica-Rome's neighbours are Buffalo-Cheektowaga and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Utica-Rome

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning361.25Not published
Electrical371.29Not published$29.64
Flooring411.43Not published
HVAC742.58Not published$29.75
Landscaping752.61Not published
Painting291.01Not published
Pest control100.35Not published
Plumbing311.08Not published$35.00
Pool70.24Not published
Roofing451.57Not published$29.36
Other home service47016.37Not 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.

One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.

Home-service contractors in New York carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.