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Pest control contractors in Pittsburgh, PA

The Pittsburgh, PA metro area has 176 pest control contractors, or 0.73 per 10,000 residents.

What pest control work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national pest control page. Pennsylvania publishes no business-level licence source for pest control, so this page shows no licensed share; the Pennsylvania page says what it does publish.

The facts

Pest control contractors in this metro
176
Per 10,000 residents
0.73 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
4
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Pennsylvania. No pest control record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
141 independent, 10 franchise brand, 6 corporate owned, 19 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.56% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,422,725, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about pest control in Pittsburgh

By record count, pest control is the tenth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Pittsburgh, behind painting and ahead of pool. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Pittsburgh.

Per resident, Pittsburgh sits close to the Pennsylvania rate for pest control, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Pittsburgh's pest control records is close to the Pennsylvania figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Pennsylvania publishes no business-level licence source for pest control that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Pittsburgh is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no pest control record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for pest control in Pittsburgh, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to pest control cleanly enough to print, so Pittsburgh carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Pittsburgh pest control records that are not independent, 10 are franchise brands and 6 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Pittsburgh's pest control records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.

More pest control records first appeared in Pittsburgh over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Pittsburgh differs from the metro enough on pest control to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 9 Pennsylvania metro areas this site publishes a pest control page for, Pittsburgh is 2nd of 9 by records per resident, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a pest control page for rather than every metro area in Pennsylvania.

Ordered by pest control records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a pest control page for, the hubs either side of Pittsburgh are Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia above it and Santa Maria-Santa Barbara below it.

Pest control contractors, A to Z

176 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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