Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
The Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metro area has 3,118 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 31.96 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,738 records and 55.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 25.
No trade in Greenville-Anderson-Greer runs meaningfully ahead of South Carolina’s own rate per resident for that trade. 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer's largest trades: it is 4th of 5 for other home service, around the middle; it is 3rd of 5 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 4th 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 3,118
- Per 10,000 residents
- 31.96 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 78
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,904 independent, 85 franchise brand, 86 corporate owned, 43 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.67% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.79% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 975,480, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Greenville-Anderson-Greer
Other home service is Greenville-Anderson-Greer'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, Greenville-Anderson-Greer's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Greenville-Anderson-Greer. The smallest of them here is pool.
Greenville-Anderson-Greer's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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, Greenville-Anderson-Greer sits close to the South Carolina rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Greenville-Anderson-Greer against South Carolina. Plumbing leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Pool is thinner in Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer. 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Greenville-Anderson-Greer's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,670 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 112 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.
Greenville-Anderson-Greer's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in other home service.
Within Greenville-Anderson-Greer, pool and plumbing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Greenville-Anderson-Greer'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.
Cleaning is the Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and HVAC lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Greenville-Anderson-Greer that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Greenville, Anderson, Wade Hampton and Greer. Each of them carries one trade.
Greenville-Anderson-Greer, 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer on this site are Omaha above it and New Orleans-Metairie below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Greenville-Anderson-Greer's neighbours are Macon-Bibb County and Huntsville. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Greenville-Anderson-Greer
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 148 | 1.52 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 112 | 1.15 | Not published | $28.95 |
| Flooring | 151 | 1.55 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 207 | 2.12 | Not published | $28.25 |
| Landscaping | 270 | 2.77 | Not published | |
| Painting | 90 | 0.92 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 95 | 0.97 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 157 | 1.61 | Not published | $24.46 |
| Pool | 25 | 0.26 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 125 | 1.28 | Not published | $22.37 |
| Other home service | 1,738 | 17.82 | 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville | other home service | 242 |
| Anderson | other home service | 63 |
| Wade Hampton | other home service | 54 |
| Greer | other home service | 51 |
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.