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Home-service contractors in Appleton, WI

The Appleton, WI metro area has 1,006 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 40.82 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 543 records and 54.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 2.

Against Wisconsin’s own rate per resident for each trade, Appleton carries more pest control contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, painting, HVAC contractors than the state average.

Among the 4 Wisconsin metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Appleton's largest trades: it is 3rd of 4 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 4 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for roofing. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Wisconsin.

The facts for Appleton

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,006
Per 10,000 residents
40.82 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
26
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Independent, franchise, corporate
956 independent, 24 franchise brand, 19 corporate owned, 7 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.68% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.09% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 246,433, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Appleton

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

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

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

One Appleton 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, Appleton sits close to the Wisconsin rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Against Wisconsin's own mix, Appleton is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Even Appleton's thinnest trade against Wisconsin, painting, sits close to the state share.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and roofing are Appleton's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

No Appleton 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 Appleton, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, roofing and HVAC in Appleton. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.

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

Plumbing carries Appleton's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 890 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 46 plumbing 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, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Of the Appleton records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in cleaning; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is pest control.

Within Appleton, electrical and plumbing are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Appleton'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.

Pest control is the Appleton 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 Appleton records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of them, and no record here was flagged closed in that window.

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

Appleton, WI sits inside Wisconsin 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 Appleton on this site are Prescott Valley-Prescott above it and Tyler below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Appleton's neighbours are Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach and Gulfport-Biloxi. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Appleton

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning381.54Not published
Electrical522.11Not published$32.13
Flooring491.99Not published
HVAC572.31Not published$29.62
Landscaping1014.10Not published
Painting371.50Not published
Pest control200.81Not published
Plumbing461.87Not published$44.11
Pool20.08Not published
Roofing612.48Not published$29.75
Other home service54322.03Not 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 Wisconsin carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.