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Plumbing contractors in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

The Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area has 222 plumbing contractors, or 1.63 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
222
Per 10,000 residents
1.63 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
2
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 Kentucky. 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
2,780 employed, $74,680 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $35.91. 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
220 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.45% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.45% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,365,557, 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 Louisville/Jefferson County

By record count, plumbing is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Louisville/Jefferson County, behind roofing 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 Louisville/Jefferson County.

Per resident, Louisville/Jefferson County sits close to the Kentucky rate for plumbing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Louisville/Jefferson County's plumbing records is close to the Kentucky figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far more of Louisville/Jefferson County's plumbing records carry no street address than across Kentucky. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

Kentucky publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Louisville/Jefferson County 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 Louisville/Jefferson County, 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 2,780 workers across Louisville/Jefferson County, and this site publishes 222 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 Louisville/Jefferson County plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Louisville/Jefferson County 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 Louisville/Jefferson County 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 Louisville/Jefferson County 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 2 Kentucky metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Louisville/Jefferson County 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 Kentucky.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Louisville/Jefferson County are Milwaukee-Waukesha above it and Evansville below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

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