Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Reading, PA
The Reading, PA metro area has 72 plumbing contractors, or 1.66 per 10,000 residents.
What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. Pennsylvania publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the Pennsylvania page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Plumbing contractors in this metro
- 72
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.66 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 0
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 1
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Pennsylvania. 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
- 360 employed, $62,370 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $29.99. 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
- 70 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 432,821, 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 Reading
By record count, plumbing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Reading, behind painting and ahead of pest control. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Reading.
Per resident, Reading carries fewer plumbing records than Pennsylvania as a whole.
The independent share of Reading's plumbing records is close to the Pennsylvania figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Pennsylvania publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Reading 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 Reading, 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 360 workers across Reading, and this site publishes 72 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 Reading plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.
No Reading plumbing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
More plumbing records in Reading were flagged closed over the last twelve months than first appeared, so the file for this trade and metro shrank. A closed flag is a signal contributed upstream, not a confirmed closure.
No city inside Reading 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 Pennsylvania metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Reading is 6th 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 Pennsylvania.
Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Reading are Chattanooga above it and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
70 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- 3 B's PlumbingBirdsboro, PAListed in open place data
- A & A SalsanoBlandon, PAListed in open place data
- A American RooterWest Reading, PAListed in open place data
- A-Team PlumbingBirdsboro, PAListed in open place data
- Advanced PlumbingReading, PAListed in open place data
- Al Levering Plumbing & HeatingReading, PAListed in open place data
- Albrecht Bruce Plumbing & HeatingWest Reading, PAListed in open place data
- Antietam Pump Co.Reading, PAListed in open place data
- Banks ConstructionReading, PAListed in open place data
- Baseline ContractingReading, PAListed in open place data
- Benjamin Franklin PlumbingTemple, PAListed in open place data
- Berk's Drain ServiceReading, PAListed in open place data
- Berks Plumbing & HVAC SpecialistReading, PAListed in open place data
- Berks Rooter ServiceLeesport, PAListed in open place data
- Blankenbiller Plumbing & HeatingFleetwood, PAListed in open place data
- Blue Mountain Mechanical & AssociatesBernville, PAListed in open place data
- Bollinger Septic ServicesBirdsboro, PAListed in open place data
- Busnach Plumbing Heating & ACReading, PAListed in open place data
- Capitol Heating and AirMorgantown, PAListed in open place data
- Center Point Tank ServicesDouglassville, PAListed in open place data
- Clear Flow Water SolutionsBirdsboro, PAListed in open place data
- Clear Flow Water SolutionsBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Country View General ContractingMorgantown, PAListed in open place data
- Damiani PlumbingTemple, PAListed in open place data
- Daniel SmaglinskiReading, PAListed in open place data
- Edwin M YoderReading, PAListed in open place data
- Free SpiritBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Freedom Plumbing and DrainReading, PAListed in open place data
- Fritz Roy J PlmbrWernersville, PAListed in open place data
- Gemini General ContractingFleetwood, PAListed in open place data
- Gregory RibickDouglassville, PAListed in open place data
- Grosser's Plumbing Heating & Air ConditioningBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Hain A PlumberReading, PAListed in open place data
- James Chelius Plumbing & HeatingMohnton, PAListed in open place data
- Jay McClafferty ContractingDouglassville, PAListed in open place data
- JM ContractingReading, PAListed in open place data
- Jud Firestone PlumbingBernville, PAListed in open place data
- Jud Firestone PlumbingLeesport, PAListed in open place data
- Jud Firestone PlumbingReading, PAListed in open place data
- L & M PlumbingKempton, PAListed in open place data
- Lashs Custom BuildingWernersville, PAListed in open place data
- Lauman's Septic PumpingMacungie, PAListed in open place data
- M D FarrellDouglassville, PAListed in open place data
- M&B PlumbingBarto, PAListed in open place data
- Michael D Harle PlumbingMohrsville, PAListed in open place data
- Miller Steven Earl & SonsBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Montgomery J A Plumbing & HeatingBirdsboro, PAListed in open place data
- Morris JackWomelsdorf, PAListed in open place data
- Moyer Stan L PlumbingBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Moyer Total Indoor ComfortKutztown, PAListed in open place data
- Mr Molusky Plumbing & HeatingReading, PAListed in open place data
- Painter Plumbing Heating & MechanicalMohrsville, PAListed in open place data
- Peltier AssociatesFleetwood, PAListed in open place data
- Pennypacker Harvey Plumbing & Drain CleaningBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Pipe 2 Fix PlumbersBirdsboro, PAListed in open place data
- Plumber In the Reading Pa AreaReading, PAListed in open place data
- Reading Foundry & Supply Co.Reading, PAListed in open place data
- RKN MechanicalTemple, PAListed in open place data
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water CleanupReading, PAListed in open place data
- Sailer's Plumbing & HeatingBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Selly's PlumbingBoyertown, PAListed in open place data
- Smith John D Plumbing & RoofingFleetwood, PAListed in open place data
- Steiner Jack Plumbing, Heating & CoolingReading, PAListed in open place data
- Tomaszewski Plumbing HeatingTemple, PAListed in open place data
- Two Guys Plumbing HeatingFleetwood, PAListed in open place data
- Valentine Dan Plumbing & HeatingDouglassville, PAListed in open place data
- W Brett Lowry Well Pump ServiceMyerstown, PAListed in open place data
- W Brett Lowry Well Pump ServiceMyerstown, PAListed in open place data
- Water & WireworksMohnton, PAListed in open place data
- Zynex Plumbing & HVACReading, PAListed in open place data
Other trades in Reading
- Cleaning 76
- Electrical 102
- Flooring 73
- HVAC 142
- Landscaping 159
- Painting 73
- Pest control 20
- Pool 13
- Roofing 79
- Other home service 835
- All trades in Reading