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Plumbing contractors in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA

The Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA metro area has 39 plumbing contractors, or 1.30 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
39
Per 10,000 residents
1.30 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
310 employed, $80,030 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $38.48. 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
36 independent, 3 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 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 299,003, 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater

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

Per resident, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater carries fewer plumbing records than Washington as a whole.

The independent share of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater'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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, and this site publishes 39 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater 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 Washington.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater are Urban Honolulu above it and Merced below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater

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