Yes for the basics, and the basics are a shorter list than most schema guides suggest. Schema does not make you rank — it makes machines parse you correctly, which matters more every year as AI assistants answer questions by reading structured data rather than pages.
What is actually worth deploying
LocalBusiness (or the specific subtype — Plumber, Dentist, RoofingContractor) with name, address, phone, hours, and URL. This is the one that matters. The name-address-phone in your schema must match your Google Business Profile and your site footer exactly; a mismatch here is a NAP inconsistency in a place most people never check.
FAQPage on pages that genuinely answer questions. It is the most direct route into AI answers and featured snippets, and it is cheap to add.
BreadcrumbList on any site deeper than one level. Small, easy, and it changes how your result displays.
Service on your service pages, if you have distinct ones.
That is most of the return. Review, Product, and Event schema matter when you actually have those things — a local service business usually does not, and marking up review data you are not entitled to mark up is a manual-action risk rather than an opportunity.
What people get wrong
The common failures are not missing schema — they are wrong schema. Data that contradicts the visible page. A phone number that no longer matches the GBP. Review markup applied to testimonials the business collected itself. Multiple conflicting LocalBusiness blocks from a theme plus a plugin plus a manual insert, all describing the same business slightly differently.
Validate what you ship, and check that the values match what a human sees on the page. Google’s Rich Results Test will confirm eligibility; it will not tell you your address is out of date.
The local business schema guide has the full markup patterns, and the schema checklist walks the deployment.