Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
The Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area has 8,642 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.05 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 4,228 records and 48.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 58.
Against Ohio’s own rate per resident for each trade, Cincinnati carries more pool, cleaning, painting contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 8 Ohio metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Cincinnati's largest trades: it is 5th of 8 for other home service, around the middle; it is 5th of 8 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 3rd of 8 for plumbing, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Ohio.
The facts for Cincinnati
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 8,642
- Per 10,000 residents
- 38.05 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 128
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 14
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 8,289 independent, 130 franchise brand, 145 corporate owned, 78 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.72% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.04% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,271,479, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Cincinnati
Other home service is Cincinnati'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, Cincinnati's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, plumbing and HVAC. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Cincinnati. The smallest of them here is pool.
Cincinnati's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and electrical. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Cincinnati 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, Cincinnati sits close to the Ohio rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pool takes a larger share of Cincinnati than of Ohio, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Cincinnati's thinnest trade against Ohio, other home service, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and plumbing are Cincinnati's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati, 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 Cincinnati. 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 Cincinnati, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Cincinnati's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 5,640 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 391 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.
Cincinnati's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Cincinnati, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Cincinnati'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 Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Blue Ash, Fairfield, Florence and Sharonville. Each of them carries one trade.
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 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, the metro areas either side of Cincinnati on this site are Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas above it and Kansas City below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Cincinnati's neighbours are Greeley and Winston-Salem. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Cincinnati
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 454 | 2.00 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 391 | 1.72 | Not published | $30.53 |
| Flooring | 417 | 1.84 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 564 | 2.48 | Not published | $29.92 |
| Landscaping | 866 | 3.81 | Not published | |
| Painting | 399 | 1.76 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 186 | 0.82 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 586 | 2.58 | Not published | $31.33 |
| Pool | 58 | 0.26 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 493 | 2.17 | Not published | $23.66 |
| Other home service | 4,228 | 18.61 | 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 Cincinnati with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Ash | other home service | 93 |
| Fairfield | other home service | 85 |
| Florence | other home service | 75 |
| Sharonville | other home service | 69 |
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.