Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH
The Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH metro area has 3,082 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 37.85 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,441 records and 46.8% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 16.
Against Ohio’s own rate per resident for each trade, Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek carries more roofing, HVAC, plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer landscaping contractors than the state average.
Among the 8 Ohio metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's largest trades: it is 7th of 8 for other home service, in the bottom quarter; it is 7th of 8 for landscaping, in the bottom quarter; and it is the densest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Ohio.
The facts for Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 3,082
- Per 10,000 residents
- 37.85 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 59
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 9
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,962 independent, 47 franchise brand, 57 corporate owned, 16 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.90% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.97% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 814,363, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek
Other home service is Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek'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, Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek. The smallest of them here is pool.
Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek 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, Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek sits close to the Ohio rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Roofing takes a larger share of Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek than of Ohio, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's thinnest trade against Ohio, landscaping, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek. 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,920 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 147 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.
Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek'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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Roofing holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Plumbing is the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Dayton, Beavercreek and Kettering. Each of them carries one trade.
Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek on this site are Lakeland-Winter Haven above it and Stockton-Lodi below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek's neighbours are Chicago-Naperville-Elgin and Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 141 | 1.73 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 147 | 1.81 | Not published | $29.75 |
| Flooring | 157 | 1.93 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 259 | 3.18 | Not published | $30.05 |
| Landscaping | 271 | 3.33 | Not published | |
| Painting | 112 | 1.38 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 78 | 0.96 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 219 | 2.69 | Not published | $30.26 |
| Pool | 16 | 0.20 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 241 | 2.96 | Not published | $24.72 |
| Other home service | 1,441 | 17.69 | 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Dayton | other home service | 246 |
| Beavercreek | other home service | 91 |
| Kettering | 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.