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Home-service contractors in Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA

The Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro area has 2,182 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 36.00 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,201 records and 55.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 16.

Against Pennsylvania’s own rate per resident for each trade, Harrisburg-Carlisle carries more cleaning contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, plumbing, HVAC contractors than the state average.

Among the 9 Pennsylvania metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Harrisburg-Carlisle's largest trades: it is 6th of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is 8th of 9 for landscaping, in the bottom quarter; and it is the thinnest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Pennsylvania.

The facts for Harrisburg-Carlisle

Home-service contractors in this metro
2,182
Per 10,000 residents
36.00 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
30
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
8
Independent, franchise, corporate
2,093 independent, 27 franchise brand, 47 corporate owned, 15 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.59% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.64% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 606,055, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Harrisburg-Carlisle

Other home service is Harrisburg-Carlisle'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, Harrisburg-Carlisle's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Harrisburg-Carlisle. The smallest of them here is pool.

Harrisburg-Carlisle's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Harrisburg-Carlisle 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, Harrisburg-Carlisle sits close to the Pennsylvania rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Cleaning takes a larger share of Harrisburg-Carlisle than of Pennsylvania, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Electrical is thinner in Harrisburg-Carlisle 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

No Harrisburg-Carlisle 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle, 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle. 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Harrisburg-Carlisle's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,050 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 83 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle, HVAC and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Harrisburg-Carlisle's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Pest control is the Harrisburg-Carlisle 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.

One city inside Harrisburg-Carlisle, Harrisburg, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA sits inside Pennsylvania 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle on this site are Durham-Chapel Hill above it and Spokane-Spokane Valley below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Harrisburg-Carlisle's neighbours are Detroit-Warren-Dearborn and Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Harrisburg-Carlisle

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning1151.90Not published
Electrical831.37Not published$34.53
Flooring1101.82Not published
HVAC1432.36Not published$30.08
Landscaping2203.63Not published
Painting831.37Not published
Pest control400.66Not published
Plumbing801.32Not published$35.36
Pool160.26Not published
Roofing911.50Not published$24.50
Other home service1,20119.82Not 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 Harrisburg-Carlisle with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Harrisburgother home service78

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.