Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area has 89 plumbing contractors, or 2.02 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
- 89
- Per 10,000 residents
- 2.02 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
- 28.1%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
- 226Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 24
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 740 employed, $61,000 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $29.33. 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
- 84 independent, 5 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 3.37% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 441,257, 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara
By record count, plumbing is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, behind flooring and ahead of HVAC. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara.
Per resident, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara sits close to the California rate for plumbing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.
The independent share of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara'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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara'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 larger share of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara's plumbing records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join here.
Almost every Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 740 workers across Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, and this site publishes 89 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.
No Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is 4th 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara are Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington above it and Roanoke below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
89 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- 805 PlumbingLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- A G EntCarpinteria, CAState license on record
- AAA Plumbing & Rooter ServicesSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Aaron's PlumbingBuellton, CAListed in open place data
- Allen's Quality PlumbingGuadalupe, CAState license on record
- Alvarado PlumbingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- American Leak Detection of Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Anacapa PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Arrow PlumbingSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Asap Plumbing & Drain ServicesLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Bidet Toilet Seat StoreSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Browning Plumbing ConstructionSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Capovilla PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Channel PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Channel PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Clay's Septic & JettingGuadalupe, CAListed in open place data
- Construction PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- County Sanitation Co.Santa Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Coxon PlumbingSanta Ynez, CAListed in open place data
- Culligan Santa MariaSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Dani BoySanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Downs Equipment RentalsSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- EcoplumbSolvang, CAListed in open place data
- Escalera PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Express RooterCarpinteria, CAState license on record
- Folgner Ron Fire ProtectionSanta Ynez, CAListed in open place data
- Geodigital InternationalLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- George the Rooter ManSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Good Land Plumbing & ConstructionGoleta, CAState license on record
- Hansen's PlumbingLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Haynes Plumbing & MaintenanceSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Heritage Home & Plumbing ServicesLompoc, CAState license on record
- Hoke And BurgerGoleta, CAState license on record
- Husband For Hire-Honey BeeSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Ingalls Kitchen & Bath WorksSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Ingalls Plumbing & HeatingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Izzy PlumbingGuadalupe, CAState license on record
- JCH PLUMBING LLCBuellton, CAListed in open place data
- Jerry The PlumberSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Jerry The PlumberGoleta, CAState license on record
- JES PlumbingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Jim Flores & Son's PlumbingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- John's Plumbing Co.Santa Maria, CAListed in open place data
- KCD PlumbingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Ken Derscheid PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Ken Palmer PlumbingCarpinteria, CAListed in open place data
- Kenny Jorgensen PlumbingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Koehler PlumbingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Ldm Plumbing & MechanicalSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- LDM Plumbing & MechanicalOrcutt, CAState license on record
- Longevity Plumbing ServicesSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Luigi Crisa PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- M K Williams Plumbing & Fire SprinklersSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- M M MechanicalCarpinteria, CAState license on record
- Medina Sewer and Drain CleaningLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Miracle Rooter Plumbing & Drain CleaningSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Mission PlumbingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Mr Rooter PlumbingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Mr. Rooter PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Nicholson PlumbingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Nuflow Central CoastSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Pacific PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Phil's PlumbingSolvang, CAState license on record
- PRO Plumbers - Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Pure Safe Water ProductsSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Quality PlumbingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Quick Response Plumbing & Drain Cleaning-Bobby SnyderSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- R J Carroll & Sons PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Reliable Rooter & MaintenanceBuellton, CAListed in open place data
- Rios, George FSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Rooter-ManGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Rooter-ManGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain ServiceGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Sanchez Plumbing IncSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Sanchez Plumbing Inc Goleta CAGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Santa Barbara Plumbing Co.Carpinteria, CAListed in open place data
- Selzer Max PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Sm Plumbing & Handyman ServiceSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Smardan-Hatcher Co.Santa Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Smith Eldon H & SonGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Stewart's DerootingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Stewart's Derooting & PlumbingCarpinteria, CAListed in open place data
- Streator Pipe And SupplySanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Tnt PlumbingLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Tri Tech PlumbingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Tri-County Leak DetectionSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- UCLA Health Santa Barbara CardiologySanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Water Fixers Plumbing & FiltrationSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Zeek’s PlumbingSanta Maria, CAState license on record