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Plumbing contractors in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro area has 1,622 plumbing contractors, or 2.62 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
1,622
Per 10,000 residents
2.62 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
30
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
4
Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
6.3%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.1%. 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
1,114
Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
Employment and pay for this trade
5,930 employed, $57,760 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $27.77. 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
1,600 independent, 20 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.80% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.11% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,183,199, 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach

By record count, plumbing is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, behind HVAC and ahead of landscaping. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach.

Per resident, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach carries more plumbing records than Florida as a whole.

The independent share of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach'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.

Fewer of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's plumbing records are missing a street address than across Florida.

A far smaller share of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach'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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach plumbing record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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 5,930 workers across Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, and this site publishes 1,622 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach'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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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.

The cities inside Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach that differ from the wider metro enough on plumbing to carry pages of their own are Fort Lauderdale and Davie.

Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach is 2nd of 16 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 Florida.

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

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

1,548 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 5 further pages linked below, not withheld. The city pages below cover the same metro in smaller pieces.

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