How many Australian pest control companies are in this dataset?

827, drawn from 501,275 scanned records and measured on 2026-08-08. That is a census of the pest control companies in this directory rather than of every pest control company in Australia, and it skews toward businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all.

How many Australian pest control companies publish an ABN you can check?

11.5% — 95 of 827. The national rate across all trades is 9.8%, so pest control companies sit 17% above it. An ABN is free and public, so a missing one is usually a business that never put it on their website rather than a business without one.

How many pest control companies list a phone number that doesn't match their website?

8.6%, or about 71 businesses. This counts only cases where a listed number directly contradicts the number on the business's own site — not businesses with no phone number and not ones that could not be checked. It is often a stale listing, and sometimes a lead-reselling service sitting between you and the person who does the work.

How many Google reviews does the median Australian pest control company have?

39, against a national median of 29 across all trades. Half have fewer. Review counts track how often people hire a trade rather than how well it performs, so comparing a pest control company against a trade people call more often tells you very little.

Which state has the best-documented pest control companies?

Western Australia leads on published ABNs at 14.5%, against 5.7% in South Australia. Only states with at least 40 businesses are compared, because percentages taken over a handful of businesses move too far on a single record to mean anything.

Research

Australian pest control companies, by the numbers

We checked what 827 Australian pest control companies publish about themselves, and how much of it holds up against an independent source.

Measured 2026-08-08 · free to reuse with attribution

11.5%

publish a checkable ABN

17% above the national rate of 9.8%.

42.6%

phone number confirmed against their own site

9% above the national rate of 39.2%.

8.6%

phone number contradicting their own site

79% above the national rate of 4.8%.

68.9%

have a website that loads

6% above the national rate of 64.7%.

Google reviews for the median business

The national median is 29. Review counts track how often people hire a trade, not how well they do it — a trade you call once a decade will always sit lower.

What stands out

Pest Controllers publish a checkable ABN at 11.5%, 17% above the 9.8% national rate — better than most trades, though still under one business in six.

71 pest control companies — 8.6% — list a phone number that contradicts the one on their own website, 79% above the national 4.8%. That is worth knowing before you call: it is the signature of both a stale listing and of a lead-reselling middleman.

The median has 39 Google reviews against 29 nationally. That gap says more about how often households need pest control companies than about the standard of the work, which is why the ranking on this site weights review volume on a log scale rather than treating a 5.0 from four reviews as equal to a 4.6 from three hundred.

Pest Controllers by state

States with at least 40 pest control companies in the directory. Smaller groups are held back rather than published as percentages that move too far on a single record.

Verification coverage for Australian pest control companies, by state
State	Businesses	ABN	Phone confirmed	Phone mismatch	Site loads	Median reviews
New South Wales	277	12.3%	44.8%	5.8%	71.8%	38
Queensland	247	10.5%	39.3%	8.1%	61.1%	39
Victoria	141	11.3%	39%	11.3%	73%	45
Western Australia	76	14.5%	48.7%	9.2%	80.3%	29
South Australia	53	5.7%	43.4%	7.5%	58.5%	50

Method, and what it can't tell you

827 Australian pest control companies, each checked the same way: an ABN lookup against the national register, a comparison of the listed phone number against the number on the business's own website, an HTTP request to that website, and a match against open mapping data maintained separately from Google.

This is a census of a directory, not of the trade. It covers businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all, which if anything biases these figures upward — a business too small to appear here is less likely to publish an ABN, not more.

Percentages are of every business in the group, including those where a check could not be completed. “Confirmed” means confirmed, not “confirmed among the ones we managed to check”. Review counts and averages are held; individual reviews are not, so nothing here can tell you whether a business's reviews arrived steadily or all at once.

Full method and national figures: the state of Australian trade business data.

Common questions

How many Australian pest control companies are in this dataset?: 827, drawn from 501,275 scanned records and measured on 2026-08-08. That is a census of the pest control companies in this directory rather than of every pest control company in Australia, and it skews toward businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all.
How many Australian pest control companies publish an ABN you can check?: 11.5% — 95 of 827. The national rate across all trades is 9.8%, so pest control companies sit 17% above it. An ABN is free and public, so a missing one is usually a business that never put it on their website rather than a business without one.
How many pest control companies list a phone number that doesn't match their website?: 8.6%, or about 71 businesses. This counts only cases where a listed number directly contradicts the number on the business's own site — not businesses with no phone number and not ones that could not be checked. It is often a stale listing, and sometimes a lead-reselling service sitting between you and the person who does the work.
How many Google reviews does the median Australian pest control company have?: 39, against a national median of 29 across all trades. Half have fewer. Review counts track how often people hire a trade rather than how well it performs, so comparing a pest control company against a trade people call more often tells you very little.
Which state has the best-documented pest control companies?: Western Australia leads on published ABNs at 14.5%, against 5.7% in South Australia. Only states with at least 40 businesses are compared, because percentages taken over a handful of businesses move too far on a single record to mean anything.

Using these numbers

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WhoToHire, “Australian pest control company data 2026”, 2026-08-08. https://whotohire.com.au/research/trades/pest-control

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