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Plumbing contractors in Wichita, KS

The Wichita, KS metro area has 137 plumbing contractors, or 2.10 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
137
Per 10,000 residents
2.10 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Kansas. 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
1,060 employed, $60,940 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $29.30. 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
135 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.72% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.73% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 652,939, 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 Wichita

By record count, plumbing is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Wichita, behind HVAC 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 Wichita.

Per resident, Wichita carries more plumbing records than Kansas as a whole.

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

Far more of Wichita's plumbing records carry no street address than across Kansas. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

Kansas publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Wichita 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 Wichita, 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 1,060 workers across Wichita, and this site publishes 137 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 Wichita plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Wichita plumbing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

Plumbing records first appearing in Wichita 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 Wichita differs from the metro enough on plumbing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Wichita is the only Kansas metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, so there is no second Kansas 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 Wichita are Columbus above it and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

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