Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
The Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro area has 69 plumbing contractors, or 1.86 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
- 69
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.86 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 5
- 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
- 330 employed, $51,330 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $24.68. 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
- 66 independent, 3 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 1.43% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.45% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 370,030, 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton
By record count, plumbing is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton.
Per resident, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton'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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton'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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, 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 330 workers across Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, and this site publishes 69 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.
No Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 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, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton is 4th 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 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton are Spokane-Spokane Valley above it and Greeley below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
69 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- 1-Tom-Plumber HickoryGranite Falls, NCListed in open place data
- 3rd Rock PlumbingHickory, NCListed in open place data
- 3rd Rock PlumbingHickory, NCListed in open place data
- 3RD Rock PlumbingHickory, NCListed in open place data
- 5 Star Plumbing & Drain ServicesMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Avery Plumbing & TrenchingMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Benjamin Franklin Plumbing of HickoryConover, NCListed in open place data
- Big Dawg Drain Cleaning & RepairHickory, NCListed in open place data
- C & R Plumbing Heating ACHudson, NCListed in open place data
- Calloway PlumbingLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Carolina, Sealing & CoatingMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Catawba Plumbing & Septic TankNewton, NCListed in open place data
- Checkered Flag PlumbingDenver, NCListed in open place data
- Cool Park Pumping ServiceConover, NCListed in open place data
- Crowder PlumbingHiddenite, NCListed in open place data
- Custom Plumbing & HeatingHickory, NCListed in open place data
- D & D Handyman ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- D R PlumberNewton, NCListed in open place data
- Denver Plumbing Co.Denver, NCListed in open place data
- Donald Scronce Well & Pump ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Environmental Resources of WittenburgTaylorsville, NCListed in open place data
- Foothills Plumbing CompanyStony Point, NCListed in open place data
- Foothills Plumbing ServiceMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Grainger Plumbing and RepairVale, NCListed in open place data
- Green QuestSherrills Ford, NCListed in open place data
- Gullett PlumbingHiddenite, NCListed in open place data
- Harris Plumbing & PoolsLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Haskins Portables & PlumbingStony Point, NCListed in open place data
- Hickory Septic Tank ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Highway 16 Septic Tank ServiceConover, NCListed in open place data
- Hoyle Jeff Plumbing & Construction Co.Lenoir, NCListed in open place data
- J & W PlumbingMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Jesse Keaton PlumbingValdese, NCListed in open place data
- Jim Hatchett Plumbing Co.Taylorsville, NCListed in open place data
- JL Plumbing & ConstructionConnelly Springs, NCListed in open place data
- Johnson Bob Plumbing Co.Blowing Rock, NCListed in open place data
- Josephs 24-Hour Full Service PlumbingMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Jr's Repair ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Keith Roberts Septic SewerTerrell, NCListed in open place data
- Miller's Plumbing & Drain Cleaning ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Minyard PlumbingTaylorsville, NCListed in open place data
- Mooney MechanicalLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Paul's Plumbing & DrainHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Pipeworks Plumbing and ConstructionLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Planet PlumbingHickory, NCListed in open place data
- PlumberConover, NCListed in open place data
- Quality Construction & WindowsNewton, NCListed in open place data
- Robert's Septic Tank ServiceMaiden, NCListed in open place data
- Roberts Septic TankHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Rosebrooke Land and HomeMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Ross Ken GradingMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain ServiceMorganton, NCListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Ryan's Plumbing ProsLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Sanitary Septic Tank ServiceHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Setzer Plumbing & PumpHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Sipe Wholesale Co.Taylorsville, NCListed in open place data
- Studio 321Hickory, NCListed in open place data
- Superior Water FiltrationHickory, NCListed in open place data
- T M Caldwell PlumbingHickory, NCListed in open place data
- TNT PlumbingLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- TPS Plumbing and Septic, LLCLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Triplett's PlumbingLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Triplett's PlumbingLenoir, NCListed in open place data
- Unifour PlumbingSherrills Ford, NCListed in open place data
- Unifour PlumbingNewton, NCListed in open place data
- Wesdyk PlumbingHickory, NCListed in open place data
- Williams Septic Tank ServiceLenoir, NCListed in open place data