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Electrical contractors in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

The Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area has 822 electrical contractors, or 1.09 per 10,000 residents.

What electrical work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national electrical page. Texas publishes a business-level licence source for electrical, and the Texas page lists which classes count.

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
822
Per 10,000 residents
1.09 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
17
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Licensed share, TX portion of this metro
23.1%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. Texas publishes business-level records and blanks individual practitioners by policy, so a contractor licensed only as an individual cannot appear in this share. Texas also publishes no status column; status is derived from the expiration date and is labeled as derived.
Active licenses with no public listing
2,268
Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months, derived
266
Employment and pay for this trade
19,730 employed, $59,180 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $28.45.
Independent, franchise, corporate
819 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.48% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.09% 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. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2111.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about electrical in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands

By record count, electrical is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, behind roofing and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands.

Per resident, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands sits close to the Texas rate for electrical, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's electrical records is close to the Texas figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far more of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's electrical records carry no street address than across Texas. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

The share of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's electrical records linking to an active state licence is close to the Texas figure for the same trade.

Almost every Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands electrical record sits inside Texas, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for electrical in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

More active Texas licences covering electrical in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 19,730 workers across Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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.

Of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands electrical records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands's electrical records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More electrical records first appeared in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands differs from the metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands is 9th of 17 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in Texas.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands are Colorado Springs above it and San Antonio-New Braunfels below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

811 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 2 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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