Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area has 23,039 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 36.89 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 12,188 records and 52.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 230.
Against Pennsylvania’s own rate per resident for each trade, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington carries more pool contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 9 Pennsylvania metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's largest trades: it is 7th of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is 7th of 9 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Pennsylvania.
The facts for Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 23,039
- Per 10,000 residents
- 36.89 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 348
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 81
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 22,298 independent, 297 franchise brand, 317 corporate owned, 127 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.70% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.09% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,246,160, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington
Other home service is Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington'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, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington'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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. The smallest of them here is pool.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington sits close to the Pennsylvania rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pool takes a larger share of Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington than of Pennsylvania, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's thinnest trade against Pennsylvania, HVAC, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 10,090 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 1,179 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.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington'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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington'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.
Plumbing is the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Philadelphia, Wilmington, Levittown, Newark and King of Prussia, and 6 more. Philadelphia carries the most trades of them.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington on this site are Washington-Arlington-Alexandria above it and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's neighbours are Erie and Evansville. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 1,031 | 1.65 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 1,179 | 1.89 | Not published | $35.86 |
| Flooring | 1,055 | 1.69 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 1,686 | 2.70 | Not published | $31.05 |
| Landscaping | 2,099 | 3.36 | Not published | |
| Painting | 834 | 1.34 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 448 | 0.72 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 1,263 | 2.02 | Not published | $35.99 |
| Pool | 230 | 0.37 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 1,026 | 1.64 | Not published | $28.72 |
| Other home service | 12,188 | 19.51 | 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia | landscaping, pest control | 165 |
| Wilmington | other home service | 134 |
| Levittown | other home service | 91 |
| Newark | other home service | 79 |
| King of Prussia | other home service | 77 |
| Moorestown-Lenola | other home service | 64 |
| Greentree | other home service | 63 |
| Lansdale | other home service | 60 |
| Willow Grove | other home service | 58 |
| Middletown | other home service | 53 |
| Norristown | other home service | 50 |
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.