Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland, OH metro area has 8,409 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.95 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 4,359 records and 51.8% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 36.
No trade in Cleveland runs meaningfully ahead of Ohio’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 8 Ohio metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Cleveland's largest trades: it is 2nd of 8 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 4th of 8 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 5th of 8 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Ohio.
The facts for Cleveland
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 8,409
- Per 10,000 residents
- 38.95 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 120
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 28
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 8,084 independent, 113 franchise brand, 158 corporate owned, 54 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.89% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.01% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,158,932, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Cleveland
Other home service is Cleveland'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, Cleveland's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Cleveland. The smallest of them here is pool.
Cleveland's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Cleveland 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, Cleveland sits close to the Ohio rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Cleveland against Ohio. Landscaping leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Pool is thinner in Cleveland than across Ohio, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Cleveland's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Cleveland 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 Cleveland, 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 Cleveland. 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 Cleveland, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Cleveland's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 4,420 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 379 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 Cleveland records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Cleveland, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Cleveland'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 Cleveland trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Cleveland records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside Cleveland, the city of Cleveland itself and Mentor, Strongsville, Elyria and Parma differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own, along with 8 more. Cleveland carries the most trades of them.
Cleveland, 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 Cleveland on this site are Columbus above it and Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Cleveland's neighbours are Providence-Warwick and Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Cleveland
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 370 | 1.71 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 379 | 1.76 | Not published | $34.07 |
| Flooring | 385 | 1.78 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 504 | 2.33 | Not published | $30.19 |
| Landscaping | 915 | 4.24 | Not published | |
| Painting | 312 | 1.45 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 192 | 0.89 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 497 | 2.30 | Not published | $30.30 |
| Pool | 36 | 0.17 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 460 | 2.13 | Not published | $26.77 |
| Other home service | 4,359 | 20.19 | 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 Cleveland with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland | landscaping, other home service | 615 |
| Mentor | other home service | 158 |
| Strongsville | other home service | 103 |
| Elyria | other home service | 94 |
| Parma | other home service | 75 |
| Willoughby | other home service | 75 |
| Solon | other home service | 74 |
| Avon | other home service | 70 |
| Brunswick | other home service | 69 |
| Lakewood | other home service | 69 |
| North Olmsted | other home service | 58 |
| Medina | other home service | 56 |
| Euclid | other home service | 54 |
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.