Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
The Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area has 23,293 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 31.01 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 13,840 records and 59.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 375.
Against Texas’s own rate per resident for each trade, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands carries more cleaning contractors than the state average. It carries fewer roofing, landscaping contractors than the state average.
Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's largest trades: it is 5th of 17 for other home service, around the middle; it is 7th of 17 for HVAC, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for cleaning. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.
The facts for Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 23,293
- Per 10,000 residents
- 31.01 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 678
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 66
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 22,452 independent, 292 franchise brand, 394 corporate owned, 155 awaiting chain review
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 6,181
- Universe quality
- 0.99% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.24% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 7,510,253, 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
Other home service is Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands'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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, cleaning and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands. The smallest of them here is pool.
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands sits close to the Texas rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Cleaning takes a larger share of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands than of Texas, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Roofing is thinner in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 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 cleaning are Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
Of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
Almost every Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 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, HVAC and roofing in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands. 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 19,730 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 822 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Plumbing added the largest share of new records and pool lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are The Woodlands, Spring, Galveston, Stafford and Friendswood, and 9 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands on this site are Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington above it and Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's neighbours are Kingsport-Bristol and Kennewick-Richland. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 1,446 | 1.93 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 822 | 1.09 | 23.1% | $28.45 |
| Flooring | 925 | 1.23 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 1,546 | 2.06 | 23.0% | $28.34 |
| Landscaping | 1,141 | 1.52 | Not published | |
| Painting | 559 | 0.74 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 529 | 0.70 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 1,256 | 1.67 | Not published | $29.47 |
| Pool | 375 | 0.50 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 854 | 1.14 | Not published | $21.87 |
| Other home service | 13,840 | 18.43 | 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| The Woodlands | other home service | 223 |
| Spring | other home service | 128 |
| Galveston | other home service | 120 |
| Stafford | other home service | 119 |
| Friendswood | other home service | 117 |
| Tomball | other home service | 107 |
| Katy | other home service | 103 |
| Humble | other home service | 84 |
| Atascocita | other home service | 83 |
| La Porte | other home service | 76 |
| Rosenberg | other home service | 69 |
| Webster | other home service | 55 |
| Aldine | other home service | 53 |
| Bellaire | other home service | 50 |
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.