Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI
The Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro area has 5,459 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.98 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 2,884 records and 52.8% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 25.
Against Wisconsin’s own rate per resident for each trade, Milwaukee-Waukesha carries more pool contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, landscaping, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 4 Wisconsin metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Milwaukee-Waukesha's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is 3rd of 4 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Wisconsin.
The facts for Milwaukee-Waukesha
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 5,459
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.98 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 120
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 11
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 5,288 independent, 87 franchise brand, 50 corporate owned, 34 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.64% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.15% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,560,424, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Milwaukee-Waukesha
Other home service is Milwaukee-Waukesha'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, Milwaukee-Waukesha'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 Milwaukee-Waukesha. The smallest of them here is pool.
Milwaukee-Waukesha's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Milwaukee-Waukesha 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, Milwaukee-Waukesha carries fewer home-service records than Wisconsin as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.
Against Wisconsin's own mix, Milwaukee-Waukesha is heaviest in pool: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.
Even Milwaukee-Waukesha's thinnest trade against Wisconsin, electrical, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Milwaukee-Waukesha's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Milwaukee-Waukesha. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Milwaukee-Waukesha, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Milwaukee-Waukesha's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 4,490 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 251 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.
Of the Milwaukee-Waukesha records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in flooring; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is pool.
Within Milwaukee-Waukesha, HVAC and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Milwaukee-Waukesha'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.
Pest control is the Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Milwaukee-Waukesha that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Brookfield, West Allis, Menomonee Falls, Pewaukee and West Bend, and 1 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Milwaukee-Waukesha, 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha on this site are Providence-Warwick above it and Raleigh-Cary below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Milwaukee-Waukesha's neighbours are Daphne-Fairhope-Foley and Durham-Chapel Hill. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Milwaukee-Waukesha
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 299 | 1.92 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 251 | 1.61 | Not published | $37.41 |
| Flooring | 297 | 1.90 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 354 | 2.27 | Not published | $30.25 |
| Landscaping | 498 | 3.19 | Not published | |
| Painting | 232 | 1.49 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 77 | 0.49 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 254 | 1.63 | Not published | $40.72 |
| Pool | 25 | 0.16 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 288 | 1.85 | Not published | $28.91 |
| Other home service | 2,884 | 18.48 | 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Brookfield | other home service | 136 |
| West Allis | other home service | 136 |
| Menomonee Falls | other home service | 105 |
| Pewaukee | other home service | 86 |
| West Bend | other home service | 58 |
| Milwaukee | flooring | 51 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Wisconsin carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.