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Plumbing contractors in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC

The Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metro area has 157 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. South Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the South Carolina page says what it does publish.

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
157
Per 10,000 residents
1.61 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
10
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in South 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
960 employed, $50,890 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $24.46. 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
156 independent, 1 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.26% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 975,480, 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer

By record count, plumbing is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, behind HVAC 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer.

Per resident, Greenville-Anderson-Greer sits close to the South Carolina rate for plumbing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Greenville-Anderson-Greer's plumbing records is close to the South Carolina figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

South Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, 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 960 workers across Greenville-Anderson-Greer, and this site publishes 157 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer 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 5 South Carolina metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Greenville-Anderson-Greer is 2nd of 5 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 South Carolina.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Greenville-Anderson-Greer are Durham-Chapel Hill above it and Peoria below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

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