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Metro overview, all trades

Home-service contractors in Charleston-North Charleston, SC

The Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area has 3,046 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 35.86 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,766 records and 58.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 25.

Against South Carolina’s own rate per resident for each trade, Charleston-North Charleston carries more pest control, other home service, cleaning contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool contractors than the state average.

Among the 5 South Carolina metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Charleston-North Charleston's largest trades: it is 2nd of 5 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 5 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 5 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in South Carolina.

The facts for Charleston-North Charleston

Home-service contractors in this metro
3,046
Per 10,000 residents
35.86 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
77
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
5
Independent, franchise, corporate
2,875 independent, 63 franchise brand, 80 corporate owned, 28 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.06% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.67% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 849,417, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Charleston-North Charleston

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

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

Charleston-North Charleston's three smallest trades are pool, painting and electrical. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Charleston-North Charleston 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, Charleston-North Charleston sits close to the South Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

No trade is strongly over-represented in Charleston-North Charleston against South Carolina. Pest control leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.

Pool is thinner in Charleston-North Charleston than across South Carolina, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Charleston-North Charleston's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

No Charleston-North Charleston 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 Charleston-North Charleston, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Charleston-North Charleston. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Charleston-North Charleston, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Charleston-North Charleston's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,480 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 104 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 Charleston-North Charleston records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is flooring.

Within Charleston-North Charleston, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Charleston-North Charleston's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Painting is the Charleston-North Charleston 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 Charleston-North Charleston records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and pest control lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Charleston-North Charleston that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are North Charleston and Mount Pleasant. Each of them carries one trade.

Charleston-North Charleston, SC sits inside South Carolina 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 Charleston-North Charleston on this site are Columbia above it and Cape Coral-Fort Myers below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Charleston-North Charleston's neighbours are Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton and Shreveport-Bossier City. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Charleston-North Charleston

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning1481.74Not published
Electrical1041.22Not published$28.37
Flooring1441.70Not published
HVAC1952.30Not published$28.08
Landscaping2442.87Not published
Painting830.98Not published
Pest control1051.24Not published
Plumbing1171.38Not published$27.58
Pool250.29Not published
Roofing1151.35Not published$23.09
Other home service1,76620.79Not 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 Charleston-North Charleston with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
North Charlestonother home service304
Mount Pleasantother home service231

The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.

Home-service contractors in South Carolina carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.