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Plumbing contractors in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC

The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area has 103 plumbing contractors, or 2.59 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
103
Per 10,000 residents
2.59 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 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
460 employed, $48,340 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $23.24. 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
98 independent, 4 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.96% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 397,478, 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach

By record count, plumbing is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, behind flooring 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach.

Per resident, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach carries far more plumbing records than South Carolina as a whole.

The independent share of Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach'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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, 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 460 workers across Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, and this site publishes 103 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach's plumbing records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More plumbing records in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach 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, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach carries the most records per resident. 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach are Santa Cruz-Watsonville above it and Cincinnati below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

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