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Plumbing contractors in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

The Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area has 326 plumbing contractors, or 1.55 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
326
Per 10,000 residents
1.55 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
8
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 Tennessee. 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
2,760 employed, $60,100 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $28.90. 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
314 independent, 8 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.61% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.31% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,102,573, 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin

By record count, plumbing is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, behind electrical and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin.

Per resident, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin sits close to the Tennessee rate for plumbing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's plumbing records is close to the Tennessee figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Address completeness on Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin's plumbing records is close to the Tennessee figure.

Tennessee publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, 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 2,760 workers across Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, and this site publishes 326 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin'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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin 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 6 Tennessee metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin is 5th of 6 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 Tennessee.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin are Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia above it and Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

323 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 1 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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