Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX
The Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area has 553 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 12.96 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 296 records and 53.5% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 4.
No trade in Brownsville-Harlingen runs meaningfully ahead of Texas’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pool, painting, cleaning contractors than the state average.
Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Brownsville-Harlingen's largest trades: it is 16th of 17 for other home service, in the bottom quarter; it is 11th of 17 for HVAC, around the middle; and it is 14th of 17 for plumbing, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.
The facts for Brownsville-Harlingen
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 553
- Per 10,000 residents
- 12.96 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 23
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 1
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 521 independent, 5 franchise brand, 23 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 287
- Universe quality
- 0.35% of source records merged as duplicates, 4.52% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 426,710, 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 Brownsville-Harlingen
Other home service is Brownsville-Harlingen'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, Brownsville-Harlingen'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 Brownsville-Harlingen. The smallest of them here is pool.
Brownsville-Harlingen's three smallest trades are pool, painting and flooring. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Brownsville-Harlingen trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.
Per resident, Brownsville-Harlingen carries far fewer home-service records than Texas as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against Texas's own mix, Brownsville-Harlingen is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Cleaning is thinner in Brownsville-Harlingen 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 Brownsville-Harlingen's three densest trades, and flooring its thinnest.
Of the Brownsville-Harlingen trades with a measured licensed share, HVAC links to an active state licence most often and electrical 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 Brownsville-Harlingen, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
Almost every Brownsville-Harlingen 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 HVAC, plumbing and electrical in Brownsville-Harlingen. Of those, HVAC pays the most and electrical the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for Brownsville-Harlingen, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Brownsville-Harlingen's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 450 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 26 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 and plumbing follow it.
Of the Brownsville-Harlingen records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is other home service.
Within Brownsville-Harlingen, cleaning and electrical are the most independently held trades and other home service the least.
Almost none of Brownsville-Harlingen'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.
Landscaping is the Brownsville-Harlingen trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Brownsville-Harlingen 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 Brownsville-Harlingen, Harlingen, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Brownsville-Harlingen, 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 Brownsville-Harlingen on this site are Manchester-Nashua above it and Youngstown-Warren below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Brownsville-Harlingen's neighbours are Laredo and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Brownsville-Harlingen
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 20 | 0.47 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 26 | 0.61 | 34.6% | $22.15 |
| Flooring | 20 | 0.47 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 67 | 1.57 | 37.3% | $23.03 |
| Landscaping | 27 | 0.63 | Not published | |
| Painting | 8 | 0.19 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 27 | 0.63 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 32 | 0.75 | Not published | $22.53 |
| Pool | 4 | 0.09 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 26 | 0.61 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 296 | 6.94 | 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.
One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Cities inside Brownsville-Harlingen with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Harlingen | other home service | 80 |
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.