Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA
The Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA metro area has 1,163 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.90 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 663 records and 57.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 4.
Against Washington’s own rate per resident for each trade, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater carries more landscaping, pest control, pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer HVAC, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Washington metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is 2nd of 6 for cleaning, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Washington.
The facts for Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,163
- Per 10,000 residents
- 38.90 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 25
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,132 independent, 15 franchise brand, 12 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.51% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.75% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 299,003, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater
Other home service is Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater'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, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, cleaning and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater. The smallest of them here is pool.
Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and HVAC. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater sits close to the Washington rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Landscaping takes a larger share of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater than of Washington, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
HVAC is thinner in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater than across Washington, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and cleaning are Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater. 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 530 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 49 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.
Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in plumbing and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, cleaning and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Electrical holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Cleaning is the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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 pool lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, Olympia, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA sits inside Washington 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater on this site are Sioux Falls above it and Longview below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's neighbours are Cleveland and Fort Wayne. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 62 | 2.07 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 49 | 1.64 | Not published | $46.44 |
| Flooring | 58 | 1.94 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 34 | 1.14 | Not published | $36.66 |
| Landscaping | 136 | 4.55 | Not published | |
| Painting | 51 | 1.71 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 24 | 0.80 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 39 | 1.30 | Not published | $38.48 |
| Pool | 4 | 0.13 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 43 | 1.44 | Not published | $27.84 |
| Other home service | 663 | 22.17 | 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.
Cities inside Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Olympia | other home service | 154 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Washington carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.