Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro area has 8,466 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.23 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 4,899 records and 57.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 156.
Against Texas’s own rate per resident for each trade, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos carries more painting, pool, landscaping contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos's largest trades: it is 2nd of 17 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 4th of 17 for landscaping, inside the top quarter; and it is 8th of 17 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.
The facts for Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 8,466
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.23 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 325
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 23
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 8,156 independent, 92 franchise brand, 151 corporate owned, 67 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 2,199
- Universe quality
- 1.06% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.43% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,473,275, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
Other home service is Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos'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, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos'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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos. The smallest of them here is pool.
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos 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, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos carries more home-service records than Texas as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Painting takes a larger share of Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos than of Texas, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos than across Texas, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos trades with a measured licensed share, electrical links to an active state licence most often and HVAC least often. That spread measures how well two files join here, not whether either row's businesses hold a licence.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
Almost every Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos record sits inside the state whose licence file its share is computed from, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos. 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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 7,340 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 336 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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, landscaping and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos'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.
Landscaping is the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos trade whose records most often carry no street address, and HVAC the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Roofing added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are San Marcos, Pflugerville, Lakeway, Kyle and Wells Branch. Each of them carries one trade.
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX sits inside Texas 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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos on this site are Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro above it and Pittsburgh below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos's neighbours are Flint and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 396 | 1.60 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 336 | 1.36 | 30.7% | $29.03 |
| Flooring | 364 | 1.47 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 502 | 2.03 | 23.3% | $29.24 |
| Landscaping | 571 | 2.31 | Not published | |
| Painting | 288 | 1.16 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 191 | 0.77 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 345 | 1.39 | Not published | $30.20 |
| Pool | 156 | 0.63 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 418 | 1.69 | Not published | $22.76 |
| Other home service | 4,899 | 19.81 | 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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| San Marcos | other home service | 109 |
| Pflugerville | other home service | 96 |
| Lakeway | other home service | 75 |
| Kyle | other home service | 58 |
| Wells Branch | other home service | 51 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Texas carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.