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Home-service contractors in Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA

The Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA metro area has 972 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 31.05 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 537 records and 55.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 8.

No trade in Kingsport-Bristol runs meaningfully ahead of Tennessee’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pest control, roofing, pool contractors than the state average.

Among the 6 Tennessee metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Kingsport-Bristol's largest trades: it is 3rd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 3rd of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 5th of 6 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Tennessee.

The facts for Kingsport-Bristol

Home-service contractors in this metro
972
Per 10,000 residents
31.05 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
11
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Independent, franchise, corporate
924 independent, 16 franchise brand, 22 corporate owned, 10 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.40% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.95% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 313,025, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Kingsport-Bristol

Other home service is Kingsport-Bristol'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, Kingsport-Bristol'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 Kingsport-Bristol. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Kingsport-Bristol 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, Kingsport-Bristol sits close to the Tennessee rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Plumbing takes a larger share of Kingsport-Bristol than of Tennessee, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Roofing is thinner in Kingsport-Bristol than across Tennessee, the mirror of the lean above.

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

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

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Kingsport-Bristol. 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 Kingsport-Bristol, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Kingsport-Bristol's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 760 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 36 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 Kingsport-Bristol records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.

Within Kingsport-Bristol, roofing and landscaping are the most independently held trades and cleaning the least.

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

Cleaning is the Kingsport-Bristol 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 Kingsport-Bristol 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 other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.

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

Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA 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 Kingsport-Bristol on this site are Kennewick-Richland above it and Hagerstown-Martinsburg below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Kingsport-Bristol's neighbours are Hagerstown-Martinsburg and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Kingsport-Bristol

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning411.31Not published
Electrical361.15Not published$28.88
Flooring571.82Not published
HVAC722.30Not published$23.54
Landscaping862.75Not published
Painting290.93Not published
Pest control130.42Not published
Plumbing541.73Not published$28.54
Pool80.26Not published
Roofing391.25Not published$19.10
Other home service53717.16Not 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 Kingsport-Bristol with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Kingsportother home service92

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

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