Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC
The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area has 2,039 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 51.30 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,066 records and 52.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 42.
Against South Carolina’s own rate per resident for each trade, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach carries more pool, painting, flooring contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 5 South Carolina metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is the densest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in South Carolina.
The facts for Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,039
- Per 10,000 residents
- 51.30 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 40
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 8
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,938 independent, 35 franchise brand, 54 corporate owned, 12 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.77% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.52% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 397,478, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach
Other home service is Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach'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, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach. The smallest of them here is pool.
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and electrical. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach 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, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach carries far more home-service records than South Carolina as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against South Carolina's own mix, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Pest control is thinner in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for HVAC, electrical, plumbing and roofing in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach. Of those, HVAC pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
HVAC carries Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 630 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 138 HVAC 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, electrical and roofing follow it.
Of the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and painting the least.
Almost none of Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Painting is the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. HVAC added the largest share of new records and plumbing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Myrtle Beach and Socastee. Each of them carries one trade.
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach on this site are Canton-Massillon above it and Beaumont-Port Arthur below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's neighbours are Bend and Cape Coral-Fort Myers. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 98 | 2.47 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 79 | 1.99 | Not published | $24.62 |
| Flooring | 118 | 2.97 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 138 | 3.47 | Not published | $26.07 |
| Landscaping | 182 | 4.58 | Not published | |
| Painting | 80 | 2.01 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 51 | 1.28 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 103 | 2.59 | Not published | $23.24 |
| Pool | 42 | 1.06 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 82 | 2.06 | Not published | $22.40 |
| Other home service | 1,066 | 26.82 | 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Beach | other home service | 141 |
| Socastee | other home service | 60 |
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.