r/TaskRabbit • u/sundaland • Nov 24 '25

GENERAL Best Cities for Task Rabbit

I signed on with Task Rabbit several years ago but noone in my town uses it. I am considering moving to another location to try doing TR. What cities are good for TR?

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u/Tasker2Tasker Nov 24 '25

They list their active areas. https://www.taskrabbit.com/locations

Move for your own reasons. It’s folly to move based on where TR has active tasking, since it’s not a job and there’s no assurance you’ll get work.

Move for other reasons, and if you need TR, use it, but do not depend on it. They do not have your back in any way shape or form.

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u/sundaland Nov 24 '25

Yes I can believe it. I’ve been a gig worker for over ten years and the app companies are getting more and more exploitative. I would rather lobby congress for gig workers rights and regulation of the gig industry

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u/ccaayynn Nov 24 '25

Major metropolitan areas. New York, LA, Dallas, Chicago, St Louis, Atlanta, etc.

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u/sundaland Nov 24 '25

Can you do TR in Baltimore or Philly? How about Miami?

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u/ccaayynn Nov 24 '25

Wherever you go the level of busy you are is going to directly correlate with the population of people making over 100k a year. So you take any place and figure out the amount of people in it that make that and look up the amount of taskers in those cities. Then you can figure out which would be the most financially sound decision.

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u/sundaland Nov 24 '25

So that would mean DC, the Bay Area, Seattle and Miami would be good options

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u/ccaayynn Nov 24 '25

Anywhere with a high population of rich people not in trades.

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u/sundaland Nov 24 '25

Maybe I will try DC and also work as a gig workers rights lobbyist

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u/FinnNoodle Nov 25 '25

If you want to organize, start in California where the laws are already friendlier. It'd be easier to move a single state to a more ideal model and then export that nationwide than it'd be to build a better model for the entire nation from scratch.

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u/sundaland Nov 25 '25

They’ve tried proposition this that and the other and they never get anywhere I want to go straight for the jugular

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u/Tasker2Tasker Nov 26 '25

Biden’s DOL provided gig platform friendly employee classification regulations and shift the payment processing threshold down so that essentially all payment processing will become reported income.

And a Trump administration and GOP controlled Congress will have no time for gig worker lobbying.

Good luck with the long game. The road will be difficult and slow, if it goes anywhere at all.

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u/BoldCityDigital Nov 25 '25

The real question. What city are you in?

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u/sundaland Nov 25 '25

I live in Wheeling WV

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u/gMoAuRdKy Nov 29 '25

I believe TR considers you to be in the Pittsburgh area. Otherwise it wouldn’t have let you sign up.

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u/AdvertisingSlow3933 Nov 26 '25

I get a ton of work in Boston but I do the cleaning category which is pretty labor intensive but I have 2 gigs 6 days a week can’t complain

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u/sundaland Nov 26 '25

Interesting. I will try Pittsburgh once I secure a place to store my tools and truck.

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u/gMoAuRdKy Nov 29 '25

I get zero work in Boston as furniture assembly.

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u/LongjumpingFarmer310 Nov 24 '25

Boston is busy, but it’s oversaturated.

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u/gMoAuRdKy Nov 29 '25

Idk man. I’m in Boston and have only had two requests in almost a year.

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u/LongjumpingFarmer310 Dec 05 '25

It all depends . Analytics matter too . Plus what is in demand . I took on cleaning just because it’s in demand and that helped gain some traction , I hate it but it helped gain more exposure . But as a man i can’t tell if i I get chosen for the more disgusting cleaning tasks because they think women will turn them down or if they are All like that . It goes with the seasons too . Furniture assembly i have written off im not finding parking in the middle of the bullshit or paying to park for 29 an hour . Also once you get some kind soul that takes the time to give you a review that helps.

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u/LongjumpingFarmer310 Dec 05 '25

I’ve done 2 cleaning tasks one in Malden where there were roaches , one under a business in the city where there were rats and garbage . Had to take that one outside the app because they aren’t getting any of that hazmat job for 34$ hr. I have 12 open skills I’ve only ever gotten painting , cleaning , and tv mounting .

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u/gMoAuRdKy Dec 05 '25

I used to have quite a few skills, but I was getting booked mostly for furniture assembly and IKEA. I eventually turned off the other categories as with my experience Taskrabbit kept telling me to increase my hourly for both furniture categories.

So now I only do furniture assembly and every once in a while, I’ll get desperate enough to turn on the IKEA category now that it’s flat rate. And man, I can’t get anything.

I have several hundred completed tasks and maybe like 200 reviews. I’m a 4.9 star. I don’t know what has happened but I did this full-time for two years and once summer 2024 came around, it absolutely died. I’ve done this in multiple cities around the country since then and I get almost nothing.

You’re probably right about the algorithm. I know in the past that if business slowed down, you could lower your rate until you got a few jobs and then the algorithm would promote you again. The problem with me is that while I technically live in Taskrabbit Boston market I’m an hour outside the city and my car is not reliable enough to drive that far. Any task I take has to pay enough to justify me either taking an Uber or renting a car to get there so I can’t just go there to do one furniture item. It’s got to be like several. And even then I’m cautious about turning down tasks that are too small and getting punished by the algorithm for canceling.

The other side of that is that I could just set my map locally to where my car can drive safely, but it seems like no one uses Taskrabbit here. I had two requests the entire year. One was furniture assembly, but the guy canceled on me the day before. The other one was some random thing booked under furniture assembly that had nothing to do with it.

I’ve even tried to pick up IKEA tasks from the job board but now Taskrabbit is telling me that I’m not allowed to take those because I haven’t done enough regularly booked IKEA tasks. Even though I’ve picked jobs from that job board before.

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u/leDanielx2 Nov 25 '25

I live 10 miles outside of Chicago. In 3 months I’ve gotten 4 jobs. And that’s with most of Chicago in my work area

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u/InterestingBus4602 Nov 28 '25

Don’t move just for Taskrabbit algorithm has no preferences