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Pest control contractors in Reading, PA

The Reading, PA metro area has 20 pest control contractors, or 0.46 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
20
Per 10,000 residents
0.46 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
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
16 independent, 1 franchise brand, 3 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
4.76% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 432,821, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about pest control in Reading

By record count, pest control is the tenth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Reading, behind plumbing 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 Reading.

Per resident, Reading carries fewer pest control records than Pennsylvania as a whole.

The independent share of Reading'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 Reading 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 Reading, 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 Reading carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Reading pest control records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

No Reading pest control record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

Pest control records first appearing in Reading and records flagged closed were close to level over the last twelve months, so the file for this trade and metro held its size.

No city inside Reading 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, Reading carries the fewest records per resident. 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 Reading are Salinas above it and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission below it.

Pest control contractors, A to Z

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

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