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Plumbing contractors in Waterbury-Shelton, CT

The Waterbury-Shelton, CT metro area has 120 plumbing contractors, or 2.63 per 10,000 residents.

What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. Connecticut publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the Connecticut page says what it does publish.

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
120
Per 10,000 residents
2.63 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
5
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Connecticut. No plumbing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
670 employed, $76,880 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $36.96. 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
116 independent, 4 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
3.23% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 456,128, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. 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 Waterbury-Shelton

By record count, plumbing is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Waterbury-Shelton, behind electrical and ahead of roofing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Waterbury-Shelton.

Per resident, Waterbury-Shelton carries more plumbing records than Connecticut as a whole.

The independent share of Waterbury-Shelton's plumbing records is close to the Connecticut figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Connecticut publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Waterbury-Shelton is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no plumbing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for plumbing in Waterbury-Shelton, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 670 workers across Waterbury-Shelton, and this site publishes 120 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 Waterbury-Shelton plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton 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 5 Connecticut metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Waterbury-Shelton 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 Connecticut.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Waterbury-Shelton are Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek above it and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

120 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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