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Plumbing contractors in Spartanburg, SC

The Spartanburg, SC metro area has 56 plumbing contractors, or 1.46 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
56
Per 10,000 residents
1.46 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
0
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
310 employed, $52,640 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $25.31. 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
53 independent, 3 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.79% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 383,327, 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 Spartanburg

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

Per resident, Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg'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.

Far more of Spartanburg's plumbing records carry no street address than across South Carolina. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

South Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg, 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 310 workers across Spartanburg, and this site publishes 56 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 Spartanburg plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Spartanburg plumbing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

No plumbing record in Spartanburg first appeared or was flagged closed over the last twelve months, so this page carries no twelve-month movement for this trade and metro.

No city inside Spartanburg 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, Spartanburg is 3rd 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 Spartanburg are Baton Rouge above it and Springfield below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

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