Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
The Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro area has 6,542 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.99 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 3,538 records and 54.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 56.
Against Rhode Island’s own rate per resident for each trade, Providence-Warwick carries more pool contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
The facts for Providence-Warwick
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 6,542
- Per 10,000 residents
- 38.99 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 89
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 22
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 6,365 independent, 66 franchise brand, 84 corporate owned, 27 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.55% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.81% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,677,803, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Providence-Warwick
Other home service is Providence-Warwick'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, Providence-Warwick'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 Providence-Warwick. The smallest of them here is pool.
Providence-Warwick's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Providence-Warwick 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, Providence-Warwick sits close to the Rhode Island rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pool takes a larger share of Providence-Warwick than of Rhode Island, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Providence-Warwick's thinnest trade against Rhode Island, pest control, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Providence-Warwick's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick, 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 Providence-Warwick. 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 Providence-Warwick, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Providence-Warwick's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 3,560 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 301 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 Providence-Warwick records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is plumbing.
Within Providence-Warwick, electrical and roofing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Providence-Warwick'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 Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Providence-Warwick that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Providence, Warwick, New Bedford, Fall River and East Providence, and 4 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA 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 Providence-Warwick on this site are Jacksonville above it and Milwaukee-Waukesha below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Providence-Warwick's neighbours are St. Louis and Cleveland. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Providence-Warwick
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 274 | 1.63 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 301 | 1.79 | Not published | $35.57 |
| Flooring | 305 | 1.82 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 445 | 2.65 | Not published | $32.39 |
| Landscaping | 683 | 4.07 | Not published | |
| Painting | 306 | 1.82 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 107 | 0.64 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 277 | 1.65 | Not published | $38.37 |
| Pool | 56 | 0.33 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 250 | 1.49 | Not published | $29.60 |
| Other home service | 3,538 | 21.09 | 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 Providence-Warwick with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Providence | other home service | 263 |
| Warwick | other home service | 214 |
| New Bedford | other home service | 165 |
| Fall River | other home service | 162 |
| East Providence | other home service | 96 |
| Taunton | other home service | 96 |
| Pawtucket | other home service | 85 |
| Attleboro | other home service | 84 |
| Newport | other home service | 66 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Rhode Island carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.