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Metro overview, all trades

Home-service contractors in Memphis, TN-MS-AR

The Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro area has 3,800 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 28.45 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,827 records and 48.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 50.

Against Tennessee’s own rate per resident for each trade, Memphis carries more pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing, painting, other home service contractors than the state average.

Among the 6 Tennessee metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Memphis's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 2nd of 6 for HVAC, around the middle; and it is the thinnest of them for landscaping. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Tennessee.

The facts for Memphis

Home-service contractors in this metro
3,800
Per 10,000 residents
28.45 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
81
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
9
Independent, franchise, corporate
3,621 independent, 57 franchise brand, 79 corporate owned, 43 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.60% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.61% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,335,674, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Memphis

Other home service is Memphis's largest trade, and two of every five records here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as HVAC, the next largest.

In order, Memphis's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and roofing. Other home service and HVAC alone reach half of every record on this page.

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

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

Every trade in Memphis 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, Memphis carries fewer home-service records than Tennessee as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Pool takes a larger share of Memphis than of Tennessee, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Plumbing is thinner in Memphis than across Tennessee, the mirror of the lean above.

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

No Memphis 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 Memphis, 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 Memphis. 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 Memphis, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Memphis's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,770 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 194 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 Memphis records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.

Within Memphis, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and cleaning the least.

Almost none of Memphis'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.

Painting is the Memphis 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 Memphis 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Memphis that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Southaven, Germantown and Bartlett. Each of them carries one trade.

Memphis, TN-MS-AR 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 Memphis on this site are Richmond above it and Salt Lake City-Murray below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Memphis's neighbours are Spartanburg and Lakeland-Winter Haven. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Memphis

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning2111.58Not published
Electrical1941.45Not published$29.27
Flooring2301.72Not published
HVAC3612.70Not published$27.30
Landscaping3362.52Not published
Painting970.73Not published
Pest control1310.98Not published
Plumbing1320.99Not published$28.22
Pool500.37Not published
Roofing2311.73Not published$22.34
Other home service1,82713.68Not 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 Memphis with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Southavenother home service84
Germantownother home service78
Bartlettother home service73

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.