Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
The Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area has 82 plumbing contractors, or 1.11 per 10,000 residents.
What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the Iowa page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Plumbing contractors in this metro
- 82
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.11 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 1
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Iowa. 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
- 2,150 employed, $75,040 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $36.08. 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
- 81 independent, 1 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 1.20% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.22% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 737,164, 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines
By record count, plumbing is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Des Moines-West Des Moines, behind cleaning and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Des Moines-West Des Moines.
Per resident, Des Moines-West Des Moines carries fewer plumbing records than Iowa as a whole.
The independent share of Des Moines-West Des Moines's plumbing records is close to the Iowa figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Far more of Des Moines-West Des Moines's plumbing records carry no street address than across Iowa. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.
Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines, 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 2,150 workers across Des Moines-West Des Moines, and this site publishes 82 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.
No Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 3 Iowa metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Des Moines-West Des Moines carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for rather than every metro area in Iowa.
Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Des Moines-West Des Moines are Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas above it and Bakersfield-Delano below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
80 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A & B PlumbingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- AAA Jetting ServiceTruro, IAListed in open place data
- Accurate PlumbingBondurant, IAListed in open place data
- Accurate PlumbingBondurant, IAListed in open place data
- Al's PlumbingAlleman, IAListed in open place data
- Am Pm PlumbingWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- AMC Plumbing Co.Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- American Plumbing and ExcavatingDallas Center, IAListed in open place data
- Anytime Drain & Sewer CleaningDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Anytime Septic IISaint Charles, IAListed in open place data
- Avid Kitchen & BathWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Backus PlumbingNewton, IAListed in open place data
- Bedwell BuildersSaint Charles, IAListed in open place data
- Best & Best Home BuildersClive, IAListed in open place data
- Bob S Septic And PortaDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Bob's Sewerooter ServiceDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Broich PlumbingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- C I Carlisle MechanicalDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- City Supply CorporationDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Clog Busters Drain Cleaning & RepairDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Contractors PlumbingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- D&L PlumbingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Davidson Trenching & BackhoeSaint Charles, IAListed in open place data
- DDS PlumbingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Dee ElectronicsDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Des Moines Drain & Sewer Cleaning ServiceDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Des Moines Tree ServiceWindsor Heights, IAListed in open place data
- Foreman Electric & Plumbing Co.Baxter, IAListed in open place data
- Frontier ServicesIndianola, IAListed in open place data
- Greenwood's Sewer ServiceCarlisle, IAListed in open place data
- H2O PlumbingUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- H2O Plumbing ServicesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Hall PlumbingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- HandyhawkDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Hanley Electric & PumpSaint Charles, IAListed in open place data
- J & K ContractingUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Jorgensen PlumbingClive, IAListed in open place data
- Kinsey Floor ServiceGranger, IAListed in open place data
- Kriens PlumbingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- La Fulton SonsUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Layne Christensen Co.Grimes, IAListed in open place data
- Lazer Home ServicesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Lifestyle PlumbingWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- Lifestyle PlumbingWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- Lifestyle PlumbingWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- Mahon Plumbing LLCDallas Center, IAListed in open place data
- Mark's Drain & Plumbing RepairWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- Meycon ConstructionDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Mid Iowa Fountain ServicesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Mr Sewer RooterDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Mr. Rooter Plumbing of Des MoinesGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Murphy's Southern Iowa Sewer & DrainTruro, IAListed in open place data
- Noble PlumbingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- O'Leary EnterprisesWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Palmer PlumbingClive, IAListed in open place data
- Pipe Monkey PlumbingPleasant Hill, IAListed in open place data
- Pleva MechanicalWoodward, IAListed in open place data
- Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors of IowaWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Priority PlumbingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Project InsulationAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- R M PlumbingLacona, IAListed in open place data
- Rapid RooterDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Rhiner Bros Plumbing Heating & CoolingWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Rhiner Wayne PlumbingWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Rogers Septic Maintenance & RepairDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain ServiceWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Rozendaal Drain CleaningSully, IAListed in open place data
- Salsman PlumbingSaint Charles, IAListed in open place data
- Sweet HoneyGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Switech PlumbingProle, IAListed in open place data
- The Fog & PlumeClive, IAListed in open place data
- The Plumbing CompanyDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- The Plumbing CompanyDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Torgerson ExcavatingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Torgerson ExcavatingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- TPI Plumbing ContractorsWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- US Plumbers Home Service NampaNampa, IAListed in open place data
- VCS SepticDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Warnick MechanicalNewton, IAListed in open place data
- Wolin Mechanical ElectricalWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
Other trades in Des Moines-West Des Moines
- Cleaning 85
- Electrical 92
- Flooring 74
- HVAC 142
- Landscaping 175
- Painting 79
- Pest control 53
- Roofing 105
- Other home service 1,330
- All trades in Des Moines-West Des Moines
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Des Moines-West Des Moines, so it is answered on the overview above instead.