Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in College Station-Bryan, TX
The College Station-Bryan, TX metro area has 700 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 24.87 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 407 records and 58.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 5.
Against Texas’s own rate per resident for each trade, College Station-Bryan carries more landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, cleaning, HVAC contractors than the state average.
Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in College Station-Bryan's largest trades: it is 12th of 17 for other home service, around the middle; it is 3rd of 17 for landscaping, inside the top quarter; and it is 5th of 17 for plumbing, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.
The facts for College Station-Bryan
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 700
- Per 10,000 residents
- 24.87 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 14
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 666 independent, 11 franchise brand, 17 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 207
- Universe quality
- 0.43% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.29% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 281,445, 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 College Station-Bryan
Other home service is College Station-Bryan'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, College Station-Bryan's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, plumbing and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in College Station-Bryan. The smallest of them here is pool.
College Station-Bryan's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One College Station-Bryan 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, College Station-Bryan carries fewer home-service records than Texas as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against Texas's own mix, College Station-Bryan is heaviest in landscaping: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Cleaning is thinner in College Station-Bryan 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 plumbing are College Station-Bryan's three densest trades, and cleaning its thinnest.
Of the College Station-Bryan 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 College Station-Bryan, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
Almost every College Station-Bryan 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 and electrical in College Station-Bryan. Of those, plumbing pays the most and electrical the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for College Station-Bryan, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries College Station-Bryan's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 500 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 29 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 College Station-Bryan records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in other home service; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within College Station-Bryan, roofing and landscaping are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of College Station-Bryan'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.
Cleaning is the College Station-Bryan 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 College Station-Bryan 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 them, and no record here was flagged closed in that window.
One city inside College Station-Bryan, College Station, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
College Station-Bryan, 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 College Station-Bryan on this site are Duluth above it and Norwich-New London-Willimantic below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, College Station-Bryan's neighbours are Sioux Falls and Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in College Station-Bryan
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 21 | 0.75 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 29 | 1.03 | 17.2% | $23.28 |
| Flooring | 27 | 0.96 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 35 | 1.24 | 31.4% | $23.33 |
| Landscaping | 69 | 2.45 | Not published | |
| Painting | 15 | 0.53 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 17 | 0.60 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 47 | 1.67 | Not published | $23.93 |
| Pool | 5 | 0.18 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 28 | 0.99 | Not published | |
| Other home service | 407 | 14.46 | 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 College Station-Bryan with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| College Station | other home service | 115 |
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.