Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
The Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro area has 1,237 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 31.28 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 713 records and 57.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 10.
Against Texas’s own rate per resident for each trade, Beaumont-Port Arthur carries more painting, HVAC, plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, cleaning contractors than the state average.
Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Beaumont-Port Arthur's largest trades: it is 6th of 17 for other home service, around the middle; it is the densest of them for HVAC; and it is 2nd of 17 for plumbing, inside the top quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.
The facts for Beaumont-Port Arthur
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,237
- Per 10,000 residents
- 31.28 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 35
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 3
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,160 independent, 24 franchise brand, 42 corporate owned, 11 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 262
- Universe quality
- 0.72% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.86% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 395,479, 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur
Other home service is Beaumont-Port Arthur'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 HVAC, the next largest.
In order, Beaumont-Port Arthur's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, plumbing and landscaping. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Beaumont-Port Arthur. The smallest of them here is pool.
Beaumont-Port Arthur's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and cleaning. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Beaumont-Port Arthur 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, Beaumont-Port Arthur sits close to the Texas rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Against Texas's own mix, Beaumont-Port Arthur is heaviest in painting: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Cleaning is thinner in Beaumont-Port Arthur than across Texas, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and plumbing are Beaumont-Port Arthur's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
Of the Beaumont-Port Arthur 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
Almost every Beaumont-Port Arthur 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, electrical and HVAC in Beaumont-Port Arthur. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Beaumont-Port Arthur, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Beaumont-Port Arthur's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,000 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 47 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 and HVAC follow it.
Of the Beaumont-Port Arthur records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pool; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.
Within Beaumont-Port Arthur, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and cleaning the least.
Almost none of Beaumont-Port Arthur's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Electrical is the Beaumont-Port Arthur 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and HVAC lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Beaumont-Port Arthur, Beaumont, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Beaumont-Port Arthur, 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur on this site are Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach above it and Tallahassee below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Beaumont-Port Arthur's neighbours are Toledo and Birmingham. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Beaumont-Port Arthur
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 37 | 0.94 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 47 | 1.19 | 38.3% | $29.51 |
| Flooring | 53 | 1.34 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 111 | 2.81 | 23.4% | $27.27 |
| Landscaping | 66 | 1.67 | Not published | |
| Painting | 46 | 1.16 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 28 | 0.71 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 71 | 1.80 | Not published | $29.92 |
| Pool | 10 | 0.25 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 55 | 1.39 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 713 | 18.03 | Not published |
Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | other home service | 276 |
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.