Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
The Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area has 98 plumbing contractors, or 1.61 per 10,000 residents.
What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. North Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the North Carolina page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Plumbing contractors in this metro
- 98
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.61 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 2
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in North Carolina. 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
- 620 employed, $60,110 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $28.90. 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
- 92 independent, 4 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.02% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 608,879, 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 Durham-Chapel Hill
By record count, plumbing is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Durham-Chapel Hill, behind flooring and ahead of roofing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Durham-Chapel Hill.
Per resident, Durham-Chapel Hill sits close to the North Carolina rate for plumbing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.
The independent share of Durham-Chapel Hill's plumbing records is close to the North Carolina figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Far more of Durham-Chapel Hill's plumbing records carry no street address than across North Carolina. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.
North Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Durham-Chapel Hill 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 Durham-Chapel Hill, 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 620 workers across Durham-Chapel Hill, and this site publishes 98 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 Durham-Chapel Hill plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.
Almost none of Durham-Chapel Hill'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 Durham-Chapel Hill 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 Durham-Chapel Hill 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 9 North Carolina metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Durham-Chapel Hill is 7th of 9 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 North Carolina.
Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Durham-Chapel Hill are Amarillo above it and Greenville-Anderson-Greer below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
98 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A & A Plumbing Co.Bahama, NCListed in open place data
- A & A Plumbing CompanyDurham, NCListed in open place data
- A & L Plumbing & PipingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- A G BuildersDurham, NCListed in open place data
- A1 Electrical & HVACDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Advance Pumps & PlumbingChapel Hill, NCListed in open place data
- Affordable Allen's Repair PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- After Hours Plumbing and Pump ServiceHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Alternative Plumbing ServicesMebane, NCListed in open place data
- America's Home PlaceDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Apn PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Bar D PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Barnes Equipment RepairHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Barnette Plumbing ServiceRoxboro, NCListed in open place data
- Beasley Septic Tank Service #1Durham, NCListed in open place data
- Beasley's Septic Tank Service No 1Durham, NCListed in open place data
- Beasleys Septic Tank ServiceDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Benjamin Franklin PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Bivins TractorHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Bull City Best PlumbersDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Bull City PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Burnette Plumbing & PipeRougemont, NCListed in open place data
- Carl Parker PlumbingRoxboro, NCListed in open place data
- Carpenter's PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Carpenters Water Treatment SystemsDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Chapel Hill PlumbingChapel Hill, NCListed in open place data
- Charles Gibbs ServicesDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Chavis Sam Septic Tank CleaningRougemont, NCListed in open place data
- Clarks Septic Tank ServiceSiler City, NCListed in open place data
- Clean Septic Tank ServiceDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Clear Water PlumbingPittsboro, NCListed in open place data
- Cole's Plumbing Co.Hillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Creekside Plumbing Co.Siler City, NCListed in open place data
- D & G PlumbingSiler City, NCListed in open place data
- D-S-R PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- De Benedettis PlumbingHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- DLW ServicesNew Hill, NCListed in open place data
- Dr Drain PlumbingChapel Hill, NCListed in open place data
- Drains PlusDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Flushed Away Plumbing Co.Durham, NCListed in open place data
- Foundation XpertsDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Foushee GradingPittsboro, NCListed in open place data
- Fowler LandscapingHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Fox General ContractingSiler City, NCListed in open place data
- Full Stack PlumbingPittsboro, NCListed in open place data
- G M Hock Construction Co.Durham, NCListed in open place data
- Gibson Plumbing ServiceTimberlake, NCListed in open place data
- Goss Plumbing Co JohnnyBahama, NCListed in open place data
- Harmon Plumbing ServicesDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Harmon Plumbing ServicesDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Hd SupplyDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Huck the RooterDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Hunter Landen PlumbingMebane, NCListed in open place data
- Ivey PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Ivey PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Jack's Drain ServiceDurham, NCListed in open place data
- JD Service NowDurham, NCListed in open place data
- John E Byrd Septic Tank ServiceHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Jordan Plumbing & PipingRougemont, NCListed in open place data
- Jordan Plumbing and PipingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- JTW PlumbingTimberlake, NCListed in open place data
- Max Boswell PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Mike's Water ServiceDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Mitch's Plumbing Co.Durham, NCListed in open place data
- Morava PlumbingChapel Hill, NCListed in open place data
- Mo’ Flow PlumbingHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Mr. Rooter Plumbing of Durham NorthDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Murrays Plumbing & Water TreatmentSiler City, NCListed in open place data
- NC Green PlumbingCarrboro, NCListed in open place data
- One Call PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Professional PlumbingTimberlake, NCListed in open place data
- Professional Plumbing of Durham & TimberlakeTimberlake, NCListed in open place data
- Progressive | Plumbing, Heating & Air, ElectricalDurham, NCListed in open place data
- PVC PipeDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Quality Service Today Plumbing & SepticDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Raleigh Rooter & PlumbingBahama, NCListed in open place data
- Randall E Wilson Plumbing Co.Hillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Residential Plumbing SpecialistPittsboro, NCListed in open place data
- Richard Dorsey PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Rooter-ManDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water CleanupDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water CleanupDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Special Occasions Yard SignsHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Steve's Plumbing and SepticHurdle Mills, NCListed in open place data
- Suggs Plumbing & HeatingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Sullivan Ron Contracting Co.Durham, NCListed in open place data
- Sun SpaceDurham, NCListed in open place data
- T.D. Baker PlumbingTimberlake, NCListed in open place data
- Tackett Danny PlumbingTimberlake, NCListed in open place data
- TGW PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- The Water SpecialistPittsboro, NCListed in open place data
- Thomas J Brown PlumbingHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Tom Bacon PlumbingHillsborough, NCListed in open place data
- Tony Cook PlumbingSiler City, NCListed in open place data
- Total PlumbingDurham, NCListed in open place data
- Water Works PlumbingChapel Hill, NCListed in open place data
- We Pump It PortableBear Creek, NCListed in open place data
- Whaley Plumbing Co.Durham, NCListed in open place data
Other trades in Durham-Chapel Hill
- Cleaning 104
- Electrical 105
- Flooring 102
- HVAC 124
- Landscaping 213
- Painting 106
- Pest control 33
- Pool 12
- Roofing 89
- Other home service 1,135
- All trades in Durham-Chapel Hill