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Plumbing contractors in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area has 3,854 plumbing contractors, or 3.01 per 10,000 residents.

What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. California publishes a business-level licence source for plumbing, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
3,854
Per 10,000 residents
3.01 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
99
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
7
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
17.0%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. California licenses the business itself, so the share is measured against business-level records. About 47% of California licensees are sole owners, whose published address is frequently a home.
Active licenses with no public listing
4,799
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
725
Employment and pay for this trade
15,690 employed, $71,110 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $34.19. SOC 47-2152 pools plumbers with pipefitters and steamfitters, so this employment figure and this wage cover all three occupations together and are not a plumbing-only measure.
Independent, franchise, corporate
3,760 independent, 62 franchise brand, 14 corporate owned, 18 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.23% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.66% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 12,799,100, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2152.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about plumbing in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

By record count, plumbing is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, behind other home service and ahead of flooring. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim.

Per resident, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim carries more plumbing records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's plumbing records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

More of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's plumbing records carry no street address than across California.

The share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's plumbing records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim plumbing record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More plumbing licences lapsed in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering plumbing in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 15,690 workers across Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, and this site publishes 3,854 plumbing records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.

Of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's plumbing records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More plumbing records first appeared in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

One city inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Burbank, differs from the wider metro enough on plumbing to carry a page of its own.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim carries the most records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim carries the most, immediately above Cape Coral-Fort Myers.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

3,647 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 12 further pages linked below, not withheld. The city pages below cover the same metro in smaller pieces.

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