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Plumbing contractors in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area has 471 plumbing contractors, or 1.67 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
471
Per 10,000 residents
1.67 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
12
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
12
Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
9.1%
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
233
Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
Employment and pay for this trade
4,040 employed, $55,380 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $26.62. 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
457 independent, 11 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.46% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.55% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,817,933, 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford

By record count, plumbing is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, behind cleaning 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford.

Per resident, Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford carries fewer plumbing records than Florida as a whole.

The independent share of Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford'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.

Far more of Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford's plumbing records carry no street address than across Florida. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

The share of Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford's plumbing records linking to an active state licence is close to the Florida figure for the same trade.

Almost every Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford plumbing record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford 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 4,040 workers across Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, and this site publishes 471 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford's plumbing records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

Plumbing records first appearing in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford and records flagged closed were close to level over the last twelve months, so the file for this trade and metro held its size.

No city inside Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford 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, Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford is 8th of 16 by records per resident, around the middle. 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford are Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands above it and College Station-Bryan below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

448 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 1 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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