Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Canton-Massillon, OH
The Canton-Massillon, OH metro area has 1,595 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 39.93 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 768 records and 48.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 6.
Against Ohio’s own rate per resident for each trade, Canton-Massillon carries more landscaping, roofing, plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, pest control, pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 8 Ohio metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Canton-Massillon's largest trades: it is 4th of 8 for other home service, around the middle; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is 2nd of 8 for roofing, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Ohio.
The facts for Canton-Massillon
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,595
- Per 10,000 residents
- 39.93 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 31
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,536 independent, 22 franchise brand, 31 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.68% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.56% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 399,474, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Canton-Massillon
Other home service is Canton-Massillon's largest trade, and two of every five records here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Canton-Massillon's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, roofing and plumbing. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Canton-Massillon. The smallest of them here is pool.
Canton-Massillon's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and electrical. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Canton-Massillon 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, Canton-Massillon sits close to the Ohio rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Landscaping takes a larger share of Canton-Massillon than of Ohio, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
At the other end, electrical is far thinner in Canton-Massillon than across Ohio, by the widest margin of any trade in the table.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and roofing are Canton-Massillon's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Canton-Massillon 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 Canton-Massillon, 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 Canton-Massillon. 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 Canton-Massillon, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Canton-Massillon's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 640 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 40 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 Canton-Massillon records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is pest control.
Within Canton-Massillon, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Canton-Massillon'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 Canton-Massillon 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 Canton-Massillon 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Canton-Massillon, Canton, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Canton-Massillon, OH sits inside Ohio 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 Canton-Massillon on this site are Anchorage above it and Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Canton-Massillon's neighbours are Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Canton-Massillon
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 73 | 1.83 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 40 | 1.00 | Not published | $29.48 |
| Flooring | 88 | 2.20 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 109 | 2.73 | Not published | $28.32 |
| Landscaping | 206 | 5.16 | Not published | |
| Painting | 56 | 1.40 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 22 | 0.55 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 111 | 2.78 | Not published | $28.83 |
| Pool | 6 | 0.15 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 116 | 2.90 | Not published | $28.57 |
| Other home service | 768 | 19.23 | 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.
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.
Cities inside Canton-Massillon with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Canton | other home service | 97 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Ohio carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.