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Home repair companies in Broward County, FL

How Broward County, FL compares with other counties and the U.S. for home repair companies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 43 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #1,379 of 2,057 scored counties
#39 of 57 scored counties in Florida

Listings
1,235
44 chain locations (4%)
Official establishments
1,765
+12.4% since 2019
Household spending a year
$2.3B
On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,987 a household
Spending per listing
$1.8M
25% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
16.4
32% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
2,013,317
+3.6% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Broward County comes to about $2.3B a year: $2,987 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That is about $1.8M of household spending for each company on map listings, 25% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M.

Broward County has 1,235 home repair companies on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 4% of them, against 4% across the U.S. That comes to 16.4 for every 10,000 households, 32% above the U.S. rate of 12.4.

Official counts show 1,765 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Broward County in 2023, up 12.4% from 2019. That is one for every 427 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 101 SBA-backed loans worth $54M have gone to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Broward County.

Population estimates show Broward County grew 3.6% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For home repair companies, Broward County has a Groundwork market score of 43 (lower middle): #1,379 of 2,057 scored counties and #39 of 57 scored counties in Florida.

How Broward County compares

The same measures for Florida and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the home repair companies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Home repair trades in Broward County, FL compared with Florida and the U.S.
MeasureBroward CountyFloridaU.S.
Listings per 10k households16.415.312.4
Spending per listing$1.8M$1.9M$2.4M
Households per official establishment427485587
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+12.4%+15.9%+9.6%
Population growth, 2020–2025+3.6%+8.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance$2,987$2,932$3,018
Median household income$77,633$74,568$80,734
Groundwork market score4343

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
1,571 → 1,765+12.4% over the period
Employees, 2023
19,083
Annual payroll, 2023
$1.2B
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
1,23544 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
927The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
101
Amount
$54M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Broward County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.

Population and households in Broward County

Population, 2025 estimate
2,013,317+3.6% since 2020
Households
753,956
Median age
42.0
Homes lived in by their owners
64%
Vehicles per household
1.6
Land area
1,203 sq. mi.
People per square mile
1,644
Median household income
$77,633+30.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$109,281
Median home value
$414,600
Jobs located here
898,463
Daytime population
1,977,368Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Home repair trades across Florida

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The highest-scoring counties in Florida for home repair companies, numbered among those based in Florida, with Broward County marked.

Top counties in Florida

Counties in Florida ranked for home repair companies by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Sumter County, FL93304.3$6.8M+21.1%#2 of 2,057
2St. Johns County, FL8013111.3$3.2M+25.0%#47 of 2,057
3Osceola County, FL751309.1$3.1M+23.2%#102 of 2,057
4DeSoto County, FL7486.2$3.8M+8.8%#117 of 2,057
5Nassau County, FL734411.2$2.8M+17.4%#148 of 2,057
6Hernando County, FL71708.5$3.2M+13.3%#186 of 2,057
7Suwannee County, FL70159.3$2.7M+10.6%#216 of 2,057
8Levy County, FL68126.5$3.8M+12.7%#259 of 2,057
9Flagler County, FL666712.7$2.3M+21.0%#341 of 2,057
10Clay County, FL6410412.4$2.4M+9.4%#414 of 2,057
39Broward County, FL431,23516.4$1.8M+3.6%#1,379 of 2,057

Other business types in Broward County

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many home repair companies are in Broward County, FL?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 1,235 home repair companies in Broward County. 44 of them (4%) are chain locations. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 1,765 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023, up 12.4% from 2019.

How much do households in Broward County, FL spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?

About $2.3B a year, or $2,987 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 99, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1,235 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $1.8M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 753,956 households in Broward County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Broward County, FL compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?

Broward County has 16.4 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 32% above the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $1.8M, 25% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Broward County would have about 927, against 1,235 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 427 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. The official count rose 12.4% from 2019 to 2023, against +9.6% for the U.S.

How fast is Broward County, FL growing?

Population estimates put Broward County at 2,013,317 people in 2025, up 3.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 753,956 households. The median household income in Broward County is $77,633 a year, 4% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 30.4% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.

What is the Groundwork market score?

The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Broward County scores 43 for home repair companies (lower middle), #1,379 of 2,057 scored counties.

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