Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
The San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro area has 81 plumbing contractors, or 2.88 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
- 81
- Per 10,000 residents
- 2.88 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 2
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
- 32.1%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
- 162Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 25
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 320 employed, $63,090 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $30.33. 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
- 78 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 281,639, 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles
By record count, plumbing is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, behind flooring and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles.
Per resident, San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles carries more plumbing records than California as a whole.
The independent share of San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles'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.
A far larger share of San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles's plumbing records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, not whether the businesses in either one hold a licence.
Almost every San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 320 workers across San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, and this site publishes 81 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.
Almost none of San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles'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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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, San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles is 2nd of 19 by records per resident, inside the top quarter. 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles are Cape Coral-Fort Myers above it and Canton-Massillon below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
80 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- AhrensSan Miguel, CAListed in open place data
- Al's Septic Pumping ServiceLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- All State Utility SupplyPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Alpha and the Omega PlumbingNipomo, CAState license on record
- Anchor PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Apex PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Aquamen PlumbingPaso Robles, CAState license on record
- ASAP Sewer & DrainSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Atascadero PlumbingAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- AVG PlumbingArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- Bailey Drilling & PumpAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- Ball John PlumbingLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Barlow Gary ServicesArroyo Grande, CAState license on record
- Bell's Plumbing RepairAtascadero, CAState license on record
- Ben Heaston's 24 Hour PlumbingCambria, CAListed in open place data
- Ben Heaston's 24 Hour PlumbingCambria, CAListed in open place data
- Boneso Brothers ConstructionPaso Robles, CAState license on record
- Bruington PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Cal Coast Building & PlumbingPismo Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Cdb PlumbingAtascadero, CAState license on record
- Central Coast Pipe LiningPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Central Coast Plumbing SolutionsNipomo, CAListed in open place data
- Central Plumbing INC Service and RepairArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- Clay's Septic & JettingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Coast PlumbingGrover Beach, CAState license on record
- Competitive PlumbingLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Dan Conner PlumbingPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Dj's PlumbingArroyo Grande, CAState license on record
- Dragwater PlumbingAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- Drain Busters PlumbingLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Drain Busters PlumbingLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Drain Doctors PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAState license on record
- Emerald PlumbingPismo Beach, CAState license on record
- Estero PlumbingLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Evenson PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAState license on record
- Folkrod PlumbingGrover Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Frank Merrill Backhoe ServiceLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Furtado's PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Greg SessorCambria, CAListed in open place data
- H & H PlumbingPaso Robles, CAState license on record
- Harvey PlumbingAtascadero, CAState license on record
- I Am A Plumber Looking For WorkMorro Bay, CAListed in open place data
- Izzy PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAState license on record
- Joe's PlumbingAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- Knowles ConstructionCayucos, CAListed in open place data
- Louie's PlumbingArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- Mankins PlumbingCayucos, CAState license on record
- McCall PlumbingGrover Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Mello & Son's Pumps & MotorsArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- Mike Burton Trucking & GradingMorro Bay, CAListed in open place data
- Mr. Rooter Plumbing of The Central CoastArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- Nate's Plumbing, HVAC & Electrical LicenseArroyo Grande, CAState license on record
- Newline Plumbing CompanyLos Osos, CAState license on record
- North County Septic ServicePaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Paso Robles Wyricks PlumbingPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Plumbing of San Luis ObispoGrover Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Potter PlumbingCambria, CAState license on record
- Potter PlumbingCambria, CAState license on record
- Pure Safe Water ProductsAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- R & B ConstructionNipomo, CAListed in open place data
- Ray ConstructionAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- Red's On Time PlumbingAtascadero, CAState license on record
- Rex's Rooter PlumbingNipomo, CAListed in open place data
- Richardson PlumbingCambria, CAListed in open place data
- Roadrunner PlumbingOceano, CAState license on record
- Rock Solid PlumbingMorro Bay, CAState license on record
- Rod Kinyon PlumbingArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain ServicePaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain ServiceSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Rowland PlumbingPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Santos Bros PlumbingPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Sargents PlumbingNipomo, CAListed in open place data
- Sesser PlumbingCambria, CAListed in open place data
- Smardan-Hatcher San LuisSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Tom's PlumbingLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Tomasini ConstructionArroyo Grande, CAState license on record
- Tustin's PlumbingPaso Robles, CAState license on record
- Tustin's PlumbingPaso Robles, CAState license on record
- Walk In TubsMorro Bay, CAListed in open place data
- Waterboys PlumbingArroyo Grande, CAState license on record