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Home-service contractors in Waco, TX

The Waco, TX metro area has 791 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 25.95 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 447 records and 56.5% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 8.

Against Texas’s own rate per resident for each trade, Waco carries more landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, electrical, painting contractors than the state average.

Among the 17 Texas metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Waco's largest trades: it is 11th of 17 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 17 for landscaping, inside the top quarter; and it is 13th of 17 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Texas.

The facts for Waco

Home-service contractors in this metro
791
Per 10,000 residents
25.95 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
23
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Independent, franchise, corporate
756 independent, 9 franchise brand, 16 corporate owned, 10 awaiting chain review
Active licenses with no public listing
268
Universe quality
1.11% of source records merged as duplicates, 3.67% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 304,865, 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 Waco

Other home service is Waco'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, Waco's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Waco. The smallest of them here is pool.

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

Every trade in Waco 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, Waco sits close to the Texas rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Against Texas's own mix, Waco is heaviest in landscaping: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Electrical is thinner in Waco 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 HVAC are Waco's three densest trades, and electrical its thinnest.

Of the Waco 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 Waco, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

Almost every Waco 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, roofing and electrical in Waco. Of those, plumbing pays the most and electrical the least.

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

Electrical carries Waco's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 650 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 25 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 Waco records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in flooring; the most franchised trade here is pest control.

Within Waco, cleaning and plumbing are the most independently held trades and HVAC the least.

Almost none of Waco'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.

Roofing is the Waco 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 Waco 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.

No city inside Waco differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.

Waco, 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 Waco on this site are Hagerstown-Martinsburg above it and Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Waco's neighbours are Fresno and Vallejo. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Waco

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning361.18Not published
Electrical250.8228.0%$23.50
Flooring280.92Not published
HVAC471.5436.2%$26.85
Landscaping802.62Not published
Painting170.56Not published
Pest control260.85Not published
Plumbing441.44Not published$27.67
Pool80.26Not published
Roofing331.08Not published$23.56
Other home service44714.66Not 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.

Home-service contractors in Texas carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.