Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area has 27,649 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.13 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 15,177 records and 54.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 497.
Against Texas’s own rate per resident for each trade, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington carries more roofing, pool, flooring 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's largest trades: it is 4th of 17 for other home service, inside the top quarter; it is 5th of 17 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for roofing. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.
The facts for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 27,649
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.13 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 812
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 81
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 26,633 independent, 280 franchise brand, 518 corporate owned, 218 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 6,567
- Universe quality
- 1.04% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.95% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 8,100,037, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
Other home service is Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington'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, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, roofing and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. The smallest of them here is pool.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's three smallest trades are pool, painting and pest control. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington carries more home-service records than Texas as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Roofing takes a larger share of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington than of Texas, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's thinnest trade against Texas, electrical, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and roofing are Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
Almost every Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 20,930 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 958 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington'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.
Painting is the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Plano, Garland, McKinney, Frisco and Grand Prairie, and 22 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington on this site are Chicago-Naperville-Elgin above it and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's neighbours are Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos and Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 1,359 | 1.68 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 958 | 1.18 | 19.8% | $28.37 |
| Flooring | 1,317 | 1.63 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 1,819 | 2.25 | 22.2% | $28.63 |
| Landscaping | 1,861 | 2.30 | Not published | |
| Painting | 697 | 0.86 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 739 | 0.91 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 1,388 | 1.71 | Not published | $29.45 |
| Pool | 497 | 0.61 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 1,837 | 2.27 | Not published | $22.59 |
| Other home service | 15,177 | 18.74 | 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Plano | other home service | 799 |
| Garland | other home service | 442 |
| McKinney | other home service | 408 |
| Frisco | other home service | 384 |
| Grand Prairie | other home service | 281 |
| Richardson | other home service | 265 |
| Denton | other home service | 259 |
| Allen | other home service | 239 |
| Mesquite | other home service | 210 |
| Farmers Branch | other home service | 206 |
| Grapevine | other home service | 167 |
| Flower Mound | other home service | 161 |
| Southlake | other home service | 143 |
| North Richland Hills | other home service | 138 |
| Addison | other home service | 134 |
| Rowlett | other home service | 122 |
| Mansfield | other home service | 119 |
| Wylie | other home service | 98 |
| The Colony | other home service | 85 |
| Waxahachie | other home service | 83 |
| Colleyville | other home service | 82 |
| Euless | other home service | 77 |
| Lancaster | other home service | 74 |
| Little Elm | other home service | 70 |
| Midlothian | other home service | 68 |
| Prosper | other home service | 67 |
| Celina | other home service | 52 |
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.