Updated November 8, 2026
Connecticut Contractor Index
TradeCheck lists 4,481 Connecticut trade and home service businesses across 169 towns and 14 trades. 5 of them (under 1%) are verified, meaning TradeCheck checked their license, insurance and registration against the body that issued each one. 1,609 have a Connecticut state license or business registry record matched to them so far. Of the 4,249 with Google reviews, the median rating is 4.9 stars on a median of 24 reviews.
The gap between those numbers is the point. A high Google rating says customers were happy; it does not say the business holds the license Connecticut requires or carries insurance today. Before you hire, check both.
By trade
Trades with five or more listings. Every figure is a count of live listings, not an estimate.
| Trade | Listed | Verified | State record | Towns served | Median rating | Median reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landscaper | 100 | 1 | 49 | 169 | 4.8 | 54 |
| HVAC | 83 | 0 | 49 | 169 | 4.7 | 111 |
| Roofing | 63 | 0 | 20 | 169 | 4.9 | 88 |
| Dumpster Rental | 59 | 1 | 10 | 156 | 4.9 | 51 |
| Tree Removal | 40 | 2 | 16 | 169 | 4.9 | 89 |
| Concrete and paving | 32 | 0 | 13 | 86 | 4.8 | 47 |
| Power Washing | 24 | 0 | 5 | 116 | 5.0 | 74 |
| Electrician | 18 | 1 | 14 | 148 | 5.0 | 195 |
| Carpentry | 17 | 0 | 10 | 95 | 5.0 | 37 |
| General Contractor | 17 | 1 | 9 | 142 | 4.9 | 31 |
| Solar | 13 | 0 | 5 | 143 | 4.9 | 74 |
| Masonry | 6 | 0 | 5 | 71 | 5.0 | 69 |
How these numbers are counted
- Listed: businesses in the public directory for that trade. Some come from public business listings and have not claimed their profile.
- Verified: a person at TradeCheck checked the credential with the issuer (the state for licenses and registration, the carrier for insurance) and the check has not lapsed. A business cannot mark itself verified, and paying does not make it so.
- State record: a Connecticut eLicense credential or business registry entry matched by exact business name and town in the state's open data. Matches are not reviewed by staff, and a business with no match may simply be registered under another name.
- Median rating and reviews: from each business's Google listing at the time it was last read. Businesses with no reviews are left out of the medians.
- Not yet verified is not a negative finding. It means TradeCheck has not checked that business.
How the TradeCheck Score ranks verified businesses: methodology.
Use this data
Free to quote, cite and reuse under CC-BY-4.0 with attribution to TradeCheck USA (https://www.tradecheckusa.com). Download the full directory: JSON or CSV. Per-business Google ratings are not in the files; they belong to Google and are shown on each profile instead.