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Plumbing contractors in Kennewick-Richland, WA

The Kennewick-Richland, WA metro area has 34 plumbing contractors, or 1.08 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
34
Per 10,000 residents
1.08 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
3
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 Washington. 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
840 employed, $97,130 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $46.70. 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
31 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 1 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 314,253, 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 Kennewick-Richland

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

Per resident, Kennewick-Richland carries far fewer plumbing records than Washington as a whole.

The independent share of Kennewick-Richland's plumbing records is close to the Washington figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Washington publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Kennewick-Richland 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 Kennewick-Richland, 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 840 workers across Kennewick-Richland, and this site publishes 34 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 Kennewick-Richland plumbing records that are not independent, 2 are franchise brands and 0 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Kennewick-Richland's plumbing records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.

More plumbing records first appeared in Kennewick-Richland 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 Kennewick-Richland 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 Washington metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Kennewick-Richland carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for rather than every metro area in Washington.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Kennewick-Richland are Bakersfield-Delano above it and Utica-Rome below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Kennewick-Richland

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Kennewick-Richland, so it is answered on the overview above instead.