Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
The Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area has 7,930 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 37.72 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 4,289 records and 54.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 62.
Against Tennessee’s own rate per resident for each trade, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin carries more painting, cleaning, electrical contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 6 Tennessee metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's largest trades: it is 2nd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 3rd 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 7,930
- Per 10,000 residents
- 37.72 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 227
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 11
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 7,569 independent, 127 franchise brand, 146 corporate owned, 88 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.68% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.83% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,102,573, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
Other home service is Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin'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, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin'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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. The smallest of them here is pool.
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin 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, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin sits close to the Tennessee rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Painting takes a larger share of Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin than of Tennessee, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Pool is thinner in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 6,220 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 334 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.
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin'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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and plumbing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Murfreesboro, Franklin, Brentwood, Lebanon and Gallatin, and 5 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin on this site are Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood above it and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's neighbours are Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia and Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 396 | 1.88 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 334 | 1.59 | Not published | $30.45 |
| Flooring | 416 | 1.98 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 534 | 2.54 | Not published | $28.97 |
| Landscaping | 653 | 3.11 | Not published | |
| Painting | 300 | 1.43 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 201 | 0.96 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 326 | 1.55 | Not published | $28.90 |
| Pool | 62 | 0.29 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 419 | 1.99 | Not published | $23.14 |
| Other home service | 4,289 | 20.40 | 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Murfreesboro | other home service | 329 |
| Franklin | other home service | 255 |
| Brentwood | other home service | 134 |
| Lebanon | other home service | 113 |
| Gallatin | other home service | 93 |
| Smyrna | other home service | 84 |
| Mount Juliet | other home service | 74 |
| Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) | pest control | 67 |
| La Vergne | other home service | 60 |
| Goodlettsville | other home service | 51 |
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.