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Home-service contractors in Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH

The Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro area has 1,073 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 29.14 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 533 records and 49.7% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 10.

Against West Virginia’s own rate per resident for each trade, Huntington-Ashland carries more flooring, plumbing, painting contractors than the state average. No trade here runs meaningfully behind the state rate either.

The facts for Huntington-Ashland

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,073
Per 10,000 residents
29.14 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
21
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,028 independent, 13 franchise brand, 25 corporate owned, 7 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.64% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.40% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 368,261, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Huntington-Ashland

Other home service is Huntington-Ashland's largest trade, and two of every five records here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as HVAC, the next largest.

In order, Huntington-Ashland's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, flooring and electrical. Other home service and HVAC alone reach half of every record on this page.

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

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

Every trade in Huntington-Ashland 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, Huntington-Ashland carries more home-service records than West Virginia as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Against West Virginia's own mix, Huntington-Ashland is heaviest in flooring: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Even Huntington-Ashland's thinnest trade against West Virginia, landscaping, sits close to the state share.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and flooring are Huntington-Ashland's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

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

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

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

Electrical carries Huntington-Ashland's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 870 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 72 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 Huntington-Ashland records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is pest control.

Within Huntington-Ashland, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Huntington-Ashland'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.

Roofing is the Huntington-Ashland trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pest control the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Huntington-Ashland 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.

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

Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH crosses a state line, so this metro area sits in more than one licensing regime at once. Every count above is the whole metro; every licence figure beneath it is computed inside one state.

Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Huntington-Ashland on this site are Atlantic City-Hammonton above it and Ann Arbor below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Huntington-Ashland's neighbours are Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario and Tucson. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Huntington-Ashland

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning421.14Not published
Electrical721.96Not published$30.59
Flooring792.15Not published
HVAC1062.88Not published$23.49
Landscaping621.68Not published
Painting360.98Not published
Pest control230.62Not published
Plumbing521.41Not published$29.88
Pool100.27Not published
Roofing581.57Not published$23.54
Other home service53314.47Not 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.

Home-service contractors in West Virginia carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.