Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
The Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area has 3,583 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 41.02 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,852 records and 51.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 32.
Against Pennsylvania’s own rate per resident for each trade, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton carries more pool, landscaping, cleaning contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 9 Pennsylvania metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton's largest trades: it is 3rd of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is 2nd of 9 for HVAC, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Pennsylvania.
The facts for Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 3,583
- Per 10,000 residents
- 41.02 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 46
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 9
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 3,466 independent, 48 franchise brand, 53 corporate owned, 16 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.44% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.03% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 873,555, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton
Other home service is Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton'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, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. The smallest of them here is pool.
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton 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, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton sits close to the Pennsylvania rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton against Pennsylvania. Pool leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Plumbing is thinner in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton than across Pennsylvania, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton 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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, 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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. 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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,100 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 191 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.
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton'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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Flooring holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Pest control is the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton 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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Roofing both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Bethlehem, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton on this site are Baton Rouge above it and El Paso below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton's neighbours are Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 166 | 1.90 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 191 | 2.19 | Not published | $31.97 |
| Flooring | 171 | 1.96 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 311 | 3.56 | Not published | $30.35 |
| Landscaping | 382 | 4.37 | Not published | |
| Painting | 126 | 1.44 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 53 | 0.61 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 144 | 1.65 | Not published | $31.22 |
| Pool | 32 | 0.37 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 155 | 1.77 | Not published | $27.95 |
| Other home service | 1,852 | 21.20 | 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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Bethlehem | other home service | 129 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Pennsylvania carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.