Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Modesto, CA
The Modesto, CA metro area has 83 plumbing contractors, or 1.51 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
- 83
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.51 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 1
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
- 9.6%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
- 157Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 18
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 470 employed, $63,280 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $30.42. 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
- 82 independent, 1 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.41% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 551,430, 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 Modesto
By record count, plumbing is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Modesto, behind landscaping and ahead of electrical. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Modesto.
Per resident, Modesto carries fewer plumbing records than California as a whole.
The independent share of Modesto'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.
Far more of Modesto's plumbing records carry no street address than across California. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.
A far smaller share of Modesto's plumbing records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. Where the join is this weak the share above is a floor, and no record on this page is described on the strength of it.
Almost every Modesto 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 Modesto 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 Modesto 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 470 workers across Modesto, and this site publishes 83 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 Modesto plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.
No Modesto plumbing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
More plumbing records first appeared in Modesto 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.
No city inside Modesto differs from the metro enough on plumbing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.
Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Modesto is 12th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. 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, the hubs either side of Modesto are Salinas above it and Lake Charles below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
73 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- 3M PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- A-1 Quality PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- A-1 Septic ServiceModesto, CAListed in open place data
- AAA Emergency Plumbers of KeyesKeyes, CAListed in open place data
- AAA Emergency Plumbers of TurlockTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Ability Access Plumbing & RooterCeres, CAListed in open place data
- Able Drain & Rooter ServiceModesto, CAListed in open place data
- All-Star Emergency Plumbers of TurlockTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Apollo Drain and RooterCeres, CAState license on record
- Applegate Teeples Drilling Co.Ceres, CAListed in open place data
- ASAP Emergency PlumbersTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- ASAP Plumbing ServiceOakdale, CAListed in open place data
- Benjamin Franklin PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Bruce's Plumbing ServiceModesto, CAState license on record
- California Drain Rooter and Plumbing LLCCeres, CAListed in open place data
- Center State Pipe & Supply Co.Modesto, CAListed in open place data
- Chadha ConstructionHughson, CAListed in open place data
- Chief Drain & PlumbingHughson, CAState license on record
- Chuck's Plumbing ServiceWaterford, CAListed in open place data
- City Certified Backflow PreventionNewman, CAListed in open place data
- Clark's Septic ServiceHughson, CAListed in open place data
- Count Conde's PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Culligan Water Conditioning of Modesto, CAModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Dave's Drain Cleaning & ServiceNewman, CAListed in open place data
- Durkee PlumbingTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Dutchman Drains & PlumbingCeres, CAListed in open place data
- Emergency Plumbers 911Turlock, CAListed in open place data
- Fidelis ConstructionModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Garcia Septic & PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Gene's Septic ServiceHughson, CAListed in open place data
- Golden State Emergency Plumbers of TurlockTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Golden State Irrigation ServicesNewman, CAListed in open place data
- HPI Plumbing ServicesCeres, CAListed in open place data
- Humphrey PlumbingTurlock, CAState license on record
- Industrial Softner ServiceCeres, CAListed in open place data
- Innovation Plumbing ServiceHughson, CAListed in open place data
- Jimmy Hendricks ConstructionModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Jimmy Hendricks ConstructionSalida, CAListed in open place data
- JM PlumbingTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Joe Torres PlumbingTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Knights Plumbing and DrainTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Lingley EnterprisesOakdale, CAListed in open place data
- M Santos & Sons ContractingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- M Santos & Sons ContractingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Motherflushers PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Nor Cal RotoCeres, CAListed in open place data
- Pat's PlumbingPatterson, CAListed in open place data
- Performance PlumbingTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Pinnacle Plumbing ServiceModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Pinnacle Plumbing ServiceTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Pipe TechModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Preferred Plumbing & DrainTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Premium Plumbing & Drain IncModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Pro Mend Experts LLCTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Process ConstructionEmpire, CAListed in open place data
- Rooter Works PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- SacHughson, CAListed in open place data
- Salinas PortablesPatterson, CAListed in open place data
- Sal’s Plumbing ServiceTurlock, CAState license on record
- Silva PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- SJ Spartan Plumbing 2Modesto, CAListed in open place data
- Solar Installation GroupOakdale, CAListed in open place data
- South San Joaquin Water TreatmentOakdale, CAListed in open place data
- Summit Plumbing & MechanicalModesto, CAState license on record
- Thomas' PlumbingDenair, CAListed in open place data
- TNN Plumbing Electric ModestoModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Trice Plumbing ServiceModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Trinity Plumbing CompanyTurlock, CAListed in open place data
- Triple N ConstructionSalida, CAListed in open place data
- Valley Industrial PipingCeres, CAListed in open place data
- Valley PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Valley View PlumbingModesto, CAListed in open place data
- Western PlumbingOakdale, CAState license on record
Other trades in Modesto
- Cleaning 47
- Electrical 79
- Flooring 93
- HVAC 109
- Landscaping 91
- Painting 57
- Pest control 33
- Pool 38
- Roofing 61
- Other home service 732
- All trades in Modesto