Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area has 15,237 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 37.67 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 8,628 records and 56.6% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 42.
No trade in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue runs meaningfully ahead of Washington’s own rate per resident for that trade. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.
Among the 6 Washington metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's largest trades: it is 2nd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 5th of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 6 for flooring, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Washington.
The facts for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 15,237
- Per 10,000 residents
- 37.67 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 423
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 38
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 14,788 independent, 179 franchise brand, 189 corporate owned, 81 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.65% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.07% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 4,044,837, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue
Other home service is Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue'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, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. The smallest of them here is pool.
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 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, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue sits close to the Washington rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue against Washington. Cleaning leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Even Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's thinnest trade against Washington, pest control, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and flooring are Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 9,750 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 712 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.
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in flooring and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue'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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control both added the largest share of new records and lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Seattle, Bellevue, Kent, Everett and Auburn, and 12 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue on this site are Detroit-Warren-Dearborn above it and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue's neighbours are Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford and Springfield. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 859 | 2.12 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 712 | 1.76 | Not published | $48.93 |
| Flooring | 927 | 2.29 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 681 | 1.68 | Not published | $38.51 |
| Landscaping | 1,161 | 2.87 | Not published | |
| Painting | 690 | 1.71 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 198 | 0.49 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 671 | 1.66 | Not published | $45.78 |
| Pool | 42 | 0.10 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 668 | 1.65 | Not published | $30.81 |
| Other home service | 8,628 | 21.33 | 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.
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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle | other home service | 1,482 |
| Bellevue | other home service | 430 |
| Kent | other home service | 351 |
| Everett | other home service | 251 |
| Auburn | other home service | 211 |
| Renton | other home service | 188 |
| Redmond | other home service | 173 |
| Marysville | other home service | 142 |
| Lakewood | other home service | 136 |
| Tukwila | other home service | 109 |
| Shoreline | other home service | 95 |
| Bothell | other home service | 83 |
| Edmonds | other home service | 73 |
| Sammamish | other home service | 72 |
| Gig Harbor | other home service | 64 |
| Lake Stevens | other home service | 62 |
| Kenmore | other home service | 61 |
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.