Commercial lead generation and B2B appointment setting in McAllen

McAllen-Edinburg has 1,473 business sites with 20 or more people on site in the categories commercial trades sell to, #86 of the 100 markets we cover, and 3.03 times the national concentration of warehousing and distribution. Private business establishments grew 0.5% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1. Abstrakt's U.S.-based reps prospect those buyers by phone, email and LinkedIn and book meetings with the people who sign.

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Local B2B snapshot

How many businesses are in McAllen-Edinburg, and which ones buy

McAllen-Edinburg has 8,024 establishments in the categories commercial trades sell to, 1,473 of them with 20 or more people on site. Compared with the national mix it over-indexes on warehousing and distribution (3.03x), auto dealerships (2.28x) and medical, dental and outpatient offices (2.12x). Added over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+92), restaurants (+31) and bank and credit union offices (+9). Down: trucking companies (-44) and retail stores (-28).

  • 8,024 establishments in the 21 categories commercial trades sell to

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

  • 1,473 of them with 20 or more people on site, where a prospecting list starts

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

  • +0.5% private business establishments, 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1 (13,835 now; U.S. +3.6%)

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1

  • 3.03x the national concentration of warehousing and distribution

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1

  • 1,267 decision-maker records Abstrakt can prospect for a construction and roofing program (territory: McAllen-Edinburg)

    Source: Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026

An establishment is one physical location, so a company with three sites counts three times; decision-maker records are contacts, not companies; open programs are not reservations.

Largest buyer groups in McAllen-Edinburg

  1. Restaurants 1.54x the U.S. mix462
  2. Retail stores 1.73x the U.S. mix368
  3. Medical, dental and outpatient offices 2.12x the U.S. mix291
  4. Wholesale distributors 1.32x the U.S. mix101
  5. Manufacturing plants71
  6. Grocery stores 1.49x the U.S. mix50
  7. Trucking companies 1.71x the U.S. mix37
  8. Auto dealerships 2.28x the U.S. mix33

Sites with 20 or more people on site, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; concentration, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1.

All 20 categories, with establishments, concentration and one-year change
Business categories in McAllen-Edinburg: larger sites, all establishments, concentration and one-year change
CategorySites with 20+All establishmentsvs. U.S. mix1-yr change
Restaurants 4621,226 1.54x +31
Retail stores 3682,190 1.73x -28
Medical, dental and outpatient offices 2911,724 2.12x +92
Wholesale distributors 1011,016 1.32x -25
Manufacturing plants 71314 0.79x -2
Grocery stores (also counted in retail) 50277 1.49x -8
Trucking companies 37377 1.71x -44
Auto dealerships (also counted in retail) 33125 2.28x +3
Senior living and nursing 3272 0.55x -5
Bank and credit union offices 28491 1.95x +9
Hotels 2484 1.30x -2
Warehousing and distribution 2278 3.03x -1
Private K-12 schools 1936 1.78x +3
Churches and religious organizations 12202 0.16x 0
Hospitals 610 1.06x -2
Commercial property managers 019 0.98x +3
Nonresidential building owners 091 2.06x +5
Hosting and data processing companies 09 0.16x +2
Apartment and residential property managers 082 0.83x -3
Golf courses and country clubs 03 0.31x 0
Total, each site once1,4738,024

Sites and establishments: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; concentration (location quotient) and one-year change in establishments: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1, summed across the metro's counties.

Your industry in McAllen

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Every trade in McAllen at a glance

Largest buyer groups (sites with 20+ people)

  1. Restaurants462
  2. Retail stores368
  3. Medical, dental and outpatient offices291
  4. Wholesale distributors101
  5. Manufacturing plants71

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.

Most room per contractor

  1. Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial#1 of 100
  2. Commercial Landscaping#1 of 100
  3. Commercial Electrical#24 of 100

Larger buyer sites per contractor, ranked across up to 100 markets. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1.

Trade panels: buyer sites, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; contractors, their one-year change and employment, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1; decision-maker records, Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026; open programs, Abstrakt territory availability.

Compare all 11 trades in McAllen

Ranked by larger buyer sites per contractor against up to 100 markets (only markets with 10 or more contractors in a trade are ranked; n/r means not ranked). A higher rank means more buildings worth calling for every competitor working them.

Commercial trades in McAllen: contractors, buyer sites and rank
TradeContractors1-yr changeLarger buyer sitesPer contractorRankDecision-maker records
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care
 59 -2 590 10.0 #1 321
Commercial Landscaping
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 34 0 919 27.0 #1 not counted
Managed Service Providers
Largest buyer group: medical, dental and outpatient practices
 41 -6 630 15.4 #2 not counted
Commercial Electrical
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 49 +5 609 12.4 #24 not counted
Paving & Asphalt
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 19 +2 946 49.8 #25 not counted
Commercial Construction
Largest buyer group: commercial building owners and developers
 64 +1 307 4.8 #45 1,267
Commercial Roofing
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 11 -1 708 64.4 #48 1,267
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
Largest buyer group: medical and dental office buildings
 59 0 484 8.2 #73 405
Fire Protection
Largest buyer group: restaurants
 29 0 737 25.4 #88 not counted
Commercial Flooring
Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care
 1 0 595 595.0 n/r not counted
Commercial Painting & Coatings
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 5 0 728 145.6 n/r not counted

Sources: contractors and change, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1; buyer sites, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (each trade's own buyer categories, each site counted once); decision-maker records, Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026.

Growth and trends

Is McAllen-Edinburg adding businesses? Five years of counts

Private business establishments in the metro's counties went from 12,964 in 2021 to 13,837 in 2025 (+6.7%), while private employment moved +12.0% to 237,712. In the Census Bureau's latest count, 1,334 establishments opened and 951 closed in a year. New sites start without an incumbent vendor.

Private establishments and employment, 2021 to 2025

Private establishments, employment and average weekly wage by year, McAllen-Edinburg
YearEstablishmentsEmploymentAvg weekly wage
202112,964212,189$670
202213,401222,381$706
202313,635229,469$726
202413,694232,984$748
202513,837237,712$763

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (opens in a new tab), private ownership, 2021 to 2025 annual averages, Hidalgo County only. n/a: BLS withholds the figure for the county.

Establishments opened and closed each year

Establishment openings and closings by year, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
Year to MarchOpenedRateClosedRate
20191,15010.0%9408.2%
20201,0959.5%1,18910.3%
20211,18510.3%1,0929.4%
20221,33311.3%9568.1%
20231,33411.0%9517.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics (opens in a new tab), 2023 release, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX. Each year runs March to March; rates are per 100 establishments.

New business applications

9,978 applications for an employer ID number were filed in the metro's counties in 2025, +81.7% on 2019 (5,491): Hidalgo County 9,978. Applications include sole proprietors and filings that never hire, so they measure new business activity, not new buyers.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics (county annual) (opens in a new tab), calendar 2025, retrieved 2026-10-15.

Contractors by trade, 2021 to 2025
Contractor establishments by trade, 2021 and 2025, McAllen-Edinburg
Trade20212025Change
Commercial Painting & Coatings35+2 (+66.7%)
Fire Protection2330+7 (+30.4%)
Commercial Electrical3846+8 (+21.1%)
Managed Service Providers4045+5 (+12.5%)
Paving & Asphalt1618+2 (+12.5%)
Commercial Construction5764+7 (+12.3%)
Commercial Roofing1112+1 (+9.1%)
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical5960+1 (+1.7%)
Commercial Flooring110 (0.0%)
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial6760-7 (-10.4%)
Commercial Landscaping4034-6 (-15.0%)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages, the same NAICS codes as the trade comparison above. More contractors means more competition for the same buyers; fewer means more room for outbound.

When to prospect: the McAllen calendar

Cooling demand peaks in August (688 cooling degree days in a normal year), and 82% of the 118 severe hail and wind reports from 2015 to 2024 fell in April, May and March. Start roofing and HVAC prospecting ahead of those months.

Average high temperature, cooling degree days and severe storm reports by month, McAllen-Edinburg
MonthAvg high (F)Cooling degree daysHail and wind reports
January71800
February761060
March812178
April8732849
May9250840
June966188
July976711
August996887
September935323
October883611
November791571
December72660

Sources: NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county monthly series, 1991-2020 averages (opens in a new tab); NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (opens in a new tab), 2015 to 2024. Reports of hail 1 inch or larger and thunderstorm wind of 58 mph or more, by month, across the market counties.

Buying signals

Where the money is moving in McAllen-Edinburg

Federal contracts and building permits are early signs that a building is changing: new construction, a renovation, a re-roof.

Federal contracts performed in the metro

Federal agencies obligated $1.24 billion in contracts with a place of performance in McAllen-Edinburg's counties in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), against $3.03 billion in fiscal 2025 (-59.1%). Construction (NAICS 23) took $892.4 million, 74% of it on one award: the Department of the Army's W9126G26CA011 (opens in a new tab) in Hidalgo County, $660.5 million obligated this fiscal year (the award record describes it as DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WORLD SCREWWORM (NWS) FACILITY TO PRODUCE 300 MILLION STERILE FLIES PER WEEK.).

Contract obligations by county
CountyFY2026FY2025
Hidalgo County$1.24 billion$3.03 billion
Metro counties$1.24 billion$3.03 billion
FY2026 obligations in each trade's own NAICS code
TradeNAICSFY2026
Commercial Construction236220$885.6 million
Commercial Roofing238160$3.4 million
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial561720$2.5 million
Paving & Asphalt237310$585,260
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical238220$76,504
Commercial Landscaping561730$14,700

Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury) (opens in a new tab), contract award types A to D, obligations dated October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, by place of performance; data as of 2026-10-15. Defense contract actions are published 90 days late, so fiscal 2026 will still rise. Place of performance is coded by the contracting officer.

Territory intelligence

Where the McAllen buyers are

The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro is a single county, so a program here covers all 1,473 larger business sites from day one.

Larger business sites (20+ people) by county, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
CountySitesShare
Hidalgo County 1,473100%
Metro total1,473100%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, metro and county files, summed across the buyer categories on this page (each site counted once).

Abstrakt territories in this market

McAllen-Edinburg, TX. A strategist confirms which one your program would hold.

The owners that anchor McAllen-Edinburg

Each fact links to its source, checked 2026-10.

Health system

DHR Health (Doctors Hospital at Renaissance)

Edinburg, Hidalgo County

HUD's April 2026 McAllen housing market spotlight lists Doctors Hospital at Renaissance among the area's top employers with 6,423 employees.

The Edinburg medical campus with its hospitals, clinics and a behavioral hospital in development runs heavy HVAC, cleaning and life-safety loads in a hot, humid climate.

HVACcleaningfire protectionflooringelectrical

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD User) (opens in a new tab)
Airport

McAllen International Airport (MFE)

McAllen, Hidalgo County

Texas Border Business reported in November 2024 that MFE set an all-time record of over 1 million total passengers in a calendar year.

A city-owned terminal, parking lots and airside buildings need cleaning, HVAC service and pavement upkeep.

cleaningHVACpavingelectrical

Texas Border Business (opens in a new tab)
3 more anchor owners in McAllen-Edinburg
Logistics hub

Pharr International Bridge

Pharr, Hidalgo County

ValleyCentral reported in October 2025 that twenty-two million pounds of fresh produce cross the Pharr bridge every day and that it is known as the top bridge for produce crossing in the nation.

The produce trade feeds cold storage warehouses, distribution centers and truck yards around Pharr that need refrigeration, roofing, electrical and paving work.

HVACroofingelectricalpavingfire protection

ValleyCentral (KVEO-TV) (opens in a new tab)
Industrial park

Sharyland Business Park

Mission, Hidalgo County

Texas Border Business reported in December 2025 that the park is a 175-acre industrial development expected to generate about 2.5 million square feet of industrial space when complete.

Fifteen industrial lots near the Anzalduas International Bridge are planned for logistics, cold storage, manufacturing and distribution buildings that need roofing, paving, electrical and fire protection.

constructionroofingpavingelectricalfire protection

Texas Border Business (opens in a new tab)
Projects and economic activity

What is being built in McAllen-Edinburg, and who it puts to work

Named projects from primary and local news sources, researched September 2026. Market intelligence, not open bids: confirm timing with the owner.

UTRGV School of Optometry

$41.3 million

Under wayUnder construction; academic space July 2027, clinic January 2028

Conversion of the former Monitor newspaper building at 1400 E. Nolana Ave. in McAllen into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's School of Optometry.

Converting an office and press building into classrooms and a patient clinic means new HVAC, electrical, fire protection and interior finishes through early 2028.

HVACelectricalfire protectionflooring

Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, 2026-08-17 (opens in a new tab)

McAllen City Center first building

$13 million

Under wayUnder construction; broke ground April 2026

A 32,500-square-foot multi-tenant shell building for restaurants and retail at 1300 S. 10th Street, the first vertical work on the 13-acre former McAllen Civic Center site.

Shell construction brings roofing, paving and parking work now, then tenant finish-outs with HVAC and electrical as restaurants sign; hotel and parking phases may follow.

roofingpavingHVACelectrical

Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, 2026-04-09 (opens in a new tab)

Texas A&M AgriLife research center at McAllen

$53.5 million

Under wayDesign; construction start February 2027

A two-story, 47,671-square-foot research building with labs and clinical research space at 6200 Tres Lagos Blvd. in McAllen.

Lab buildings are heavy on HVAC, exhaust, electrical and fire protection; bids should come out ahead of the February 2027 start, with work running to early 2029.

HVACelectricalfire protectionconstruction

Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, 2026-08-20 (opens in a new tab)
Market view

What we see in McAllen

McAllen is the most open market we cover for cleaning and landscaping. Cleaning ranks #1 and landscaping #1 of 100 on larger buyer sites per contractor, and both lost contractors from 2021 to 2025: cleaning 10.4%, landscaping 15.0%. IT services ranks #2. If we ran one program here, it would be facility services.

The buyer to start with is medical. Medical offices run at 2.12x the U.S. concentration and rose by 92 establishments in the latest year, and DHR Health is among the area's top employers. Warehousing sits at 3.03x, but trucking fell by 44 and wholesale by 25, so the freight list is churning.

Construction is mid-sized and industrial. A spec industrial building near the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge is due in June 2027, ZERLUMA broke ground in July 2026 on an aluminum recycling plant in Mission's Expressway Business Park, and the first shell building at McAllen City Center, on the old civic center site, broke ground in April 2026. UTRGV's School of Optometry opens its academic space in July 2027, and Texas A&M AgriLife's research center is set to start construction in February 2027.

Fire protection (#88 of 96) and HVAC (#73) are crowded, and the fire protection contractor count rose 30.4% over the same years, so those trades sell through general contractors. Cooling demand peaks in August at 688 cooling degree days in a normal year, so HVAC service calls start in spring.

Abstrakt's reading of the sourced figures and projects above, written .

Decision-makers

Who signs, and how many of them work in McAllen

6,480 general and operations managers, 1,350 medical and health services managers and 500 construction managers work in the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro. Jobs across every industry, not a contact list.

Jobs and median annual pay by title, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
TitleJobsMedian payTrades that call this title first
General and operations managers
SOC 11-1021
6,480$74,570MSP
Medical and health services managers
SOC 11-9111
1,350$97,180
Construction managers
SOC 11-9021
500$83,450
Buyers and purchasing agents
SOC 13-1020
420$55,880
Property, real estate, and community association managers
SOC 11-9141
420$48,650landscaping, painting, paving
Computer and information systems managers
SOC 11-3021
310$133,750
Education administrators, postsecondary
SOC 11-9033
250$99,550
Facilities managers
SOC 11-3013
160$81,810cleaning, construction, electrical, flooring, roofing, fire protection, HVAC
Purchasing managers
SOC 11-3061
80$101,670

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) (opens in a new tab), May 2025, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX, all industries. Each title is the closest BLS occupation to a role in the trade's playbook; titles BLS does not publish for this metro are left out. Each trade link opens the McAllen guide's decision-maker questions.

Opportunity estimator

What Could Your Next 12 Months in McAllen Look Like?

A planning model, not a forecast: put in your own numbers and it applies Abstrakt's national sales center rates for your trade.

Default 16.1%: Abstrakt national rate for this trade. Use your own if you know it.

Baseline, 12 months

12,000prospecting dials
86meetings set
22proposals
3.6customers won
$89,355first-year value of those customers
Scenarios
ScenarioDials per meetingMeetingsCustomers wonFirst-year value
Conservative190632.6$65,841
Baseline140863.6$89,355
Optimistic1081114.6$115,831
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How it works. Meetings are dials divided by dials per appointment; proposals, customers won and value follow from the proposal rate, the win rate and your customer value. The rates are Abstrakt sales center, Performance Intelligence, national, October 2026, across all programs, not McAllen results; the scenarios use the slower and faster quarter of buyer industries. Outbound results typically build over 6 to 12 months, so a first year rarely runs at a full year's pace. Benchmarks by trade and method.

Hiring locally

What an in-house SDR costs in McAllen

  • 1,910people in the role locally, all competing for the same hires

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025. Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services and travel (SOC 41-3091).

In-house SDR, first year (illustrative)$124,700

An illustrative model, not a quote: in-house adds $15,000 commission, 25% payroll taxes and benefits, $550/month tools, $7,000 recruiting and training, 35% yearly turnover, and manager, QA and admin time, before ramp time. Abstrakt includes the SDR, management, tools and data.

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Ava walks through the platform our strategists use, set to McAllen.

Abstrakt Intelligence

This demonstration showcases real Abstrakt Intelligence capabilities using fictional companies and contacts to protect client and prospect privacy. Ava is Abstrakt's AI guide. The screens are the demo set to the McAllen territory; its territory counts come from the demo data, not the Census figures above.

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Hi, I'm Ava.

Here's what an Abstrakt program looks like in McAllen.

First, we size your territory.

The McAllen area has about 19 thousand companies and 88 thousand business contacts.

Next, we pick the playbook for your industry.

Each playbook starts with criteria that have already booked meetings.

For roofing, that's roof size, roof age and who owns the building.

Then we build the list.

Anyone who isn't a fit comes off before a rep ever sees the name.

Every prospect gets a full profile.

The decision-maker, the building, and every touch so far.

Before the first dial, each rep practices in an AI role play and gets certified.

Now the calls start.

The dialer, the talk track and the follow-up all live in one place.

Every meeting is reviewed for quality before it reaches you.

And we track each one all the way to closed.

We take one client per trade per territory.

Once a spot is taken, it's gone.

Check if your trade is still open in McAllen.

Client results

Results from programs like this one

Each story is labeled with where the program ran. Abstrakt runs every program from its St. Louis sales floor.

  • Commercial cleaningLocal program, Tulsa

    How Century Facility Services broke its referral ceiling: $415K closed in year one

    Century Facility Services

    After losing a sales rep, Century Facility Services outsourced outbound and booked 58 appointments and closed $415K in year one.

    • 58 appointments booked
    • 7 deals closed
    • $415K closed business

    First year of the program (case published April 2026)

  • Commercial roofingRegional

    How Schena Roofing booked 475 appointments and kept a seasonal calendar full

    Schena Roofing & Sheet Metal

    Schena Roofing booked 475 appointments and closed $1.69M from 2018 to 2024, with another $1.39M in proposals delivered.

    • 475 appointments
    • $1.69M closed business
    • $1.39M in proposals delivered

    2018 to 2024, from Abstrakt program records. Closed business and proposals delivered are separate figures.

  • Fire protectionLocal program, Philadelphia

    How Harring Fire Protection turned outbound and inbound into $200K in new business

    Harring Fire Protection

    Outbound appointment setting plus an inbound website produced 195 appointments and 16 closed deals worth $200K in 28 months.

    • 195 appointments booked
    • 16 deals closed
    • $200K closed business

    28-month partnership (case published April 2026); search figures within 12 months of the February 2025 site launch

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Outsourced sales development

How Abstrakt runs a McAllen program

Reps on Abstrakt's St. Louis sales floor work your McAllen-Edinburg list by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail after two weeks of training and certification on your account.

Contractor licensing in Texas

Texas has no state license for general contractors or roofers, though cities and counties may set their own requirements. TDLR licenses electrical and air conditioning/refrigeration contractors, and the State Fire Marshal's Office registers fire sprinkler and fire alarm companies.

Confirm with Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (opens in a new tab). Checked 2026-09-30.

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Outsourced sales development in McAllen, answered

Does Abstrakt provide B2B lead generation and appointment setting in McAllen?

Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced lead generation and B2B appointment setting across the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro from its St. Louis sales floor: U.S.-based reps prospect the buildings, qualify the opportunity and book meetings with the person who signs. We take one client per trade per territory.

How does B2B appointment setting work for a McAllen program?

It starts with the list. Of the 1,473 sites in McAllen-Edinburg with 20 or more people on site, we keep the ones that buy your trade inside your service area, then a certified rep works them by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail. Meetings are booked with the decision-maker, reviewed before they reach you and tracked to a proposal and a close.

Which commercial trades have the most room to grow in McAllen?

Measured by larger buyer sites per contractor across the markets we track (a market is ranked for a trade only where it has at least 10 local contractors), commercial cleaning & janitorial (#1 of 100), commercial landscaping (#1 of 100) and commercial electrical (#24 of 100) rank best in McAllen.

What kinds of businesses are concentrated in McAllen?

Compared with the national mix, McAllen-Edinburg has more warehousing and distribution (3.03x), auto dealerships (2.28x) and medical, dental and outpatient offices (2.12x). Those industries are the best-represented buyers for trades that serve them.

Is the McAllen business market growing?

Yes, on both counts below. Private business establishments across McAllen-Edinburg's counties went from 12,964 in 2021 to 13,837 in 2025 (+6.7%), and private employment +12.0% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages). In the latest Census count, 1,334 establishments opened and 951 closed in the metro (U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics, 2023, March to March), so openings ran ahead of closings by 383.

How much federal construction money is spent in McAllen?

Federal contract obligations with a place of performance in McAllen-Edinburg's counties came to $1.24 billion in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), $892.4 million of it in construction (NAICS 23) (USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), retrieved 2026-10-15). Fiscal 2026 will still rise as delayed defense contract actions post.

Why is McAllen a strong market for commercial cleaning companies?

Because the field is thin. Commercial cleaning ranks #1 of 100 markets on larger buyer sites per contractor, with 59 cleaning contractors for 590 larger buyer sites, and the contractor count fell 10.4% from 2021 to 2025. Medical offices are the first list, at 2.12x the U.S. concentration, and new buildings such as UTRGV's School of Optometry clinic, due in January 2028, add accounts.

What does the Texas A&M AgriLife research center in McAllen mean for contractors?

Lab work, with bids ahead of a February 2027 start. The two-story research building on Tres Lagos Boulevard is in design, with labs and clinical research space and construction running to early 2029. Lab buildings are heavy on HVAC, exhaust, electrical and fire protection. Electrical has room here, ranked #24 of 100 markets on larger buyer sites per contractor, while HVAC and fire protection firms face a crowded field and should work the general contractors bidding it.

What does outsourced sales development cost in McAllen?

Starting at $5,000 per month for an Outbound BDR program, as a flat monthly program. The price depends on how many reps work your program, the channels, and how large a territory and how many trades it covers. For comparison, one in-house SDR costs about $124,700 in year one at a $55,000 base salary on our illustrative model, before ramp time.

Sources and method

Updated . Approved the local markets plan: the data sources, the method and the in-house SDR cost model shown on market pages: Scott Scully, Executive Chairman, October 15, 2026. Every figure is regenerated from its source by a script in the site's code, never typed by hand.

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