Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Knoxville, TN
The Knoxville, TN metro area has 3,032 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 32.04 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,603 records and 52.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 39.
Against Tennessee’s own rate per resident for each trade, Knoxville carries more pool, roofing, plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, pest control contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Tennessee metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Knoxville's largest trades: it is 4th of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 4th of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 4th 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 Knoxville
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 3,032
- Per 10,000 residents
- 32.04 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 96
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,890 independent, 42 franchise brand, 72 corporate owned, 28 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.46% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.75% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 946,264, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Knoxville
Other home service is Knoxville'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, Knoxville's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Knoxville. The smallest of them here is pool.
Knoxville's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Knoxville 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, Knoxville sits close to the Tennessee rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pool takes a larger share of Knoxville than of Tennessee, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Electrical is thinner in Knoxville 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 Knoxville's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Knoxville 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 Knoxville, 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 Knoxville. 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 Knoxville, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Knoxville's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,170 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 97 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 Knoxville records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Knoxville, plumbing and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Knoxville'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 Knoxville 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 Knoxville 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 landscaping lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Knoxville, Maryville, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Knoxville, TN sits inside Tennessee 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 Knoxville on this site are Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury above it and Albuquerque below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Knoxville's neighbours are Longview and Macon-Bibb County. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Knoxville
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 138 | 1.46 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 97 | 1.03 | Not published | $28.19 |
| Flooring | 148 | 1.56 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 221 | 2.34 | Not published | $27.30 |
| Landscaping | 253 | 2.67 | Not published | |
| Painting | 90 | 0.95 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 70 | 0.74 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 167 | 1.76 | Not published | $28.78 |
| Pool | 39 | 0.41 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 206 | 2.18 | Not published | $21.65 |
| Other home service | 1,603 | 16.94 | 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 Knoxville with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Maryville | other home service | 61 |
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.