Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Lynchburg, VA
The Lynchburg, VA metro area has 851 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 32.16 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 438 records and 51.5% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 5.
Against Virginia’s own rate per resident for each trade, Lynchburg carries more landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pest control, plumbing, pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 4 Virginia metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Lynchburg's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 2nd of 4 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 4 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Virginia.
The facts for Lynchburg
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 851
- Per 10,000 residents
- 32.16 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
- 817 independent, 11 franchise brand, 19 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.35% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.41% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 264,590, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Lynchburg
Other home service is Lynchburg'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, Lynchburg's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Lynchburg. The smallest of them here is pool.
Lynchburg's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Lynchburg trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.
Per resident, Lynchburg sits close to the Virginia rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Landscaping takes a larger share of Lynchburg than of Virginia, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Lynchburg than across Virginia, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Lynchburg's three densest trades, and roofing its thinnest.
No Lynchburg trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Lynchburg, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roofing in Lynchburg. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Lynchburg, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
HVAC carries Lynchburg's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 530 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 62 HVAC 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. Electrical, plumbing and roofing follow it.
Of the Lynchburg records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.
Within Lynchburg, electrical and roofing are the most independently held trades and flooring the least.
Almost none of Lynchburg'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 Lynchburg 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 Lynchburg 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 them, and no record here was flagged closed in that window.
No city inside Lynchburg differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.
Lynchburg, VA sits inside Virginia 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 Lynchburg on this site are Erie above it and Fargo below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Lynchburg's neighbours are Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent and Longview. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Lynchburg
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 48 | 1.81 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 39 | 1.47 | Not published | $28.25 |
| Flooring | 48 | 1.81 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 62 | 2.34 | Not published | $28.13 |
| Landscaping | 94 | 3.55 | Not published | |
| Painting | 36 | 1.36 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 17 | 0.64 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 33 | 1.25 | Not published | $27.51 |
| Pool | 5 | 0.19 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 31 | 1.17 | Not published | $22.19 |
| Other home service | 438 | 16.55 | 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.
One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Home-service contractors in Virginia carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.