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Home-service contractors in York-Hanover, PA

The York-Hanover, PA metro area has 1,790 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.52 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 965 records and 53.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 17.

Against Pennsylvania’s own rate per resident for each trade, York-Hanover carries more painting, pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer flooring, cleaning, electrical contractors than the state average.

Among the 9 Pennsylvania metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in York-Hanover's largest trades: it is 5th of 9 for other home service, around the middle; it is 4th of 9 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 5th 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 York-Hanover

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,790
Per 10,000 residents
38.52 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
32
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
4
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,730 independent, 22 franchise brand, 30 corporate owned, 8 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.77% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.84% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 464,640, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about York-Hanover

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

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

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

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

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

Flooring is thinner in York-Hanover 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 York-Hanover's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

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

Electrical carries York-Hanover's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 770 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 81 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.

Of the York-Hanover 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 York-Hanover, electrical and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of York-Hanover'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.

Other home service is the York-Hanover 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 York-Hanover 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 landscaping lost the largest share to closed flags.

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

York-Hanover, 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 York-Hanover on this site are Wilmington above it and Springfield below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, York-Hanover's neighbours are Fort Wayne and Youngstown-Warren. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in York-Hanover

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning601.29Not published
Electrical811.74Not published$31.43
Flooring531.14Not published
HVAC1392.99Not published$29.79
Landscaping1874.02Not published
Painting901.94Not published
Pest control280.60Not published
Plumbing811.74Not published$33.70
Pool170.37Not published
Roofing891.92Not published$25.74
Other home service96520.77Not 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 York-Hanover with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Yorkother home service77

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.