Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA
The Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA metro area has 2,274 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 37.88 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,277 records and 56.2% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 12.
Against Washington’s own rate per resident for each trade, Spokane-Spokane Valley carries more pool, pest control, HVAC contractors than the state average. 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 Spokane-Spokane Valley's largest trades: it is 3rd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 3rd of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for flooring. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Washington.
The facts for Spokane-Spokane Valley
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 2,274
- Per 10,000 residents
- 37.88 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 61
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 10
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 2,182 independent, 37 franchise brand, 41 corporate owned, 14 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.85% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.92% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 600,292, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Spokane-Spokane Valley
Other home service is Spokane-Spokane Valley'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, Spokane-Spokane Valley's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Spokane-Spokane Valley. The smallest of them here is pool.
Spokane-Spokane Valley's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Spokane-Spokane Valley 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, Spokane-Spokane Valley sits close to the Washington rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pest control takes a larger share of Spokane-Spokane Valley than of Washington, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Spokane-Spokane Valley's thinnest trade against Washington, electrical, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and flooring are Spokane-Spokane Valley's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Spokane-Spokane Valley 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 Spokane-Spokane Valley, 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 Spokane-Spokane Valley. 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 Spokane-Spokane Valley, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Spokane-Spokane Valley's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,290 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 93 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.
Spokane-Spokane Valley's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in other home service.
Within Spokane-Spokane Valley, landscaping and HVAC are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Spokane-Spokane Valley's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Painting holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Flooring is the Spokane-Spokane Valley 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 Spokane-Spokane Valley 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 flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Spokane-Spokane Valley, Spokane, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Spokane-Spokane Valley, 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 Spokane-Spokane Valley on this site are Harrisburg-Carlisle above it and Toledo below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Spokane-Spokane Valley's neighbours are Reading and Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Spokane-Spokane Valley
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 100 | 1.67 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 93 | 1.55 | Not published | $38.38 |
| Flooring | 138 | 2.30 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 118 | 1.97 | Not published | $30.21 |
| Landscaping | 182 | 3.03 | Not published | |
| Painting | 108 | 1.80 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 42 | 0.70 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 112 | 1.87 | Not published | $35.00 |
| Pool | 12 | 0.20 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 92 | 1.53 | Not published | $28.23 |
| Other home service | 1,277 | 21.27 | 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 Spokane-Spokane Valley with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Spokane | other home service | 438 |
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.