How many Florida-licensed pool service contractors are active in the Orlando MSA as of mid-2026?

Short answer: Roughly 1,800 to 2,100 across the tri-county MSA — depending on the week and how you count.

Where the number comes from

The figure aggregates three Florida DBPR county-license filters for Certified Pool/Spa Service Contractor (CPC), codified in Florida Statute 489.117. Pool service work is one of the few construction-like trades that runs at scale in central Florida; the trade volume here is twice the state average per-capita because of the residential-pool density in the Orlando MSA. We filter to records where:

Pool barrier law (Florida Statute 515.21-515.28)

The Florida Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act requires every residential pool built before October 2009 (or any time the property changes ownership) to have at least one of the four safety features:

  1. A 48-inch-tall barrier with self-closing, self-latching gates (minimum 54 inches at the top of the latch).
  2. Approved pool safety cover (ASTM F1346).
  3. Door alarms on every door opening onto the pool (must produce 85 dB within 30 seconds).
  4. A swimming pool alarm (passive infrared) that detects motion in the pool itself.

The compliance violation is a non-criminal infraction ($250-$500 civil penalty) but insurance carriers reject the claim if there's an incident and no safety feature is on file.

How to verify this yourself

  1. Open myfloridalicense.com.
  2. Choose search criteria: License Type = "Certified Pool / Spa Service Contractor," County = pick one of Orange / Osceola / Seminole.
  3. Aggregate the three counties for the MSA figure.