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Plumbing contractors in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area has 957 plumbing contractors, or 1.52 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
957
Per 10,000 residents
1.52 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
29
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
6
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in District of Columbia. 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
9,420 employed, $71,860 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $34.55. 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
928 independent, 24 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.44% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.67% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,304,975, 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria

By record count, plumbing is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, behind flooring 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria.

Per resident, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria carries far more plumbing records than District of Columbia as a whole.

The independent share of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's plumbing records is close to the District of Columbia figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Fewer of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria's plumbing records are missing a street address than across District of Columbia.

District of Columbia publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, 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 9,420 workers across Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, and this site publishes 957 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria'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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria differs from the metro enough on plumbing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria is the only District of Columbia metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, so there is no second District of Columbia hub of this trade to rank it against.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria are Eugene-Springfield above it and Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

943 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 3 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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