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Plumbing contractors in Gainesville, FL

The Gainesville, FL metro area has 48 plumbing contractors, or 1.36 per 10,000 residents.

What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. Florida publishes a business-level licence source for plumbing, and the Florida page lists which classes count.

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
48
Per 10,000 residents
1.36 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
4.2%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. Florida issues both individual and qualified-business records, and qualified-business rows carry no trade code of their own. Only 12.4% of them resolve to a trade through the qualifying agent, so the Florida share is built in practice on individual certified licensees.
Active licenses with no public listing
34
Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
Employment and pay for this trade
490 employed, $51,600 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $24.81. 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
48 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 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 352,126, 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 Gainesville

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

Per resident, Gainesville carries fewer plumbing records than Florida as a whole.

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

A far smaller share of Gainesville's plumbing records link to an active state licence than the Florida 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 Gainesville plumbing record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Gainesville has a count of plumbing licences issued in the last twelve months but no observable lapse count, so the issued figure is published alone rather than turned into a churn rate it cannot support.

Some active Florida licences covering plumbing in Gainesville have no matching record in open place data, deduplicated on the licence, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 490 workers across Gainesville, and this site publishes 48 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.

No Gainesville plumbing record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.

No Gainesville 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 Gainesville 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 Gainesville 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 16 Florida metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Gainesville is 14th of 16 by records per resident, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for rather than every metro area in Florida.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Gainesville are Yakima above it and Colorado Springs below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

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