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Home-service contractors in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX

The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro area has 1,057 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 11.76 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 593 records and 56.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 13.

No trade in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission runs meaningfully ahead of Texas’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer cleaning, electrical, pool contractors than the state average.

Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 16th of 17 for HVAC, in the bottom quarter; and it is 15th of 17 for landscaping, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.

The facts for McAllen-Edinburg-Mission

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,057
Per 10,000 residents
11.76 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
28
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Independent, franchise, corporate
989 independent, 17 franchise brand, 45 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
646
Universe quality
0.19% of source records merged as duplicates, 3.78% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 898,471, 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission

Other home service is McAllen-Edinburg-Mission'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, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. The smallest of them here is pool.

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission's three smallest trades are pool, painting and electrical. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission carries far fewer home-service records than Texas as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Against Texas's own mix, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Cleaning is thinner in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 landscaping are McAllen-Edinburg-Mission's three densest trades, and painting its thinnest.

Of the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

Almost every McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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, electrical and plumbing in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. Of those, HVAC pays the most and plumbing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control, pool and roofing carry no wage figure for McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries McAllen-Edinburg-Mission's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 670 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 31 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, landscaping and electrical are the most independently held trades and other home service the least.

Almost none of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission'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.

Painting is the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside McAllen-Edinburg-Mission that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr and Mission. Each of them carries one trade.

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission on this site are Albany-Schenectady-Troy above it and Baton Rouge below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission is the thinnest metro area this site carries, just under Brownsville-Harlingen.

Every trade in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning330.37Not published
Electrical310.3519.4%$22.56
Flooring430.48Not published
HVAC1031.1530.1%$22.68
Landscaping690.77Not published
Painting250.28Not published
Pest control410.46Not published
Plumbing450.50Not published$22.17
Pool130.14Not published
Roofing610.68Not published
Other home service5936.60Not 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.

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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
McAllenother home service188
Edinburgother home service66
Pharrother home service66
Missionother home service60

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.