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Plumbing contractors in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

The Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro area has 277 plumbing contractors, or 1.65 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
277
Per 10,000 residents
1.65 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
4
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 Rhode Island. 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
3,000 employed, $79,820 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $38.37. 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
261 independent, 12 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 4 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 1,677,803, 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 Providence-Warwick

By record count, plumbing is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Providence-Warwick, behind electrical and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Providence-Warwick.

Per resident, Providence-Warwick sits close to the Rhode Island rate for plumbing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

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

Rhode Island publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick, 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 3,000 workers across Providence-Warwick, and this site publishes 277 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 Providence-Warwick plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Providence-Warwick'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 Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick differs from the metro enough on plumbing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Providence-Warwick is the only Rhode Island metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, so there is no second Rhode Island 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 Providence-Warwick are Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue above it and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

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