Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Appleton, WI
The Appleton, WI metro area has 46 plumbing contractors, or 1.87 per 10,000 residents.
What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the Wisconsin page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Plumbing contractors in this metro
- 46
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.87 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 2
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Wisconsin. 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
- 890 employed, $91,750 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $44.11. 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
- 46 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 4.17% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 246,433, 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 Appleton
By record count, plumbing is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Appleton, 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 Appleton.
Per resident, Appleton sits close to the Wisconsin rate for plumbing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.
The independent share of Appleton's plumbing records is close to the Wisconsin figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Appleton 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 Appleton, 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 890 workers across Appleton, and this site publishes 46 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.
No Appleton plumbing record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.
No Appleton 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 Appleton 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 Appleton 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 4 Wisconsin metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Appleton is 3rd of 4 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 Wisconsin.
Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Appleton are St. Louis above it and Spokane-Spokane Valley below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
46 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- Aark Soil & ConstructionLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Adam Griesbach Plumbing & Water ConditioningAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Adam Griesbach Plumbing & Water ConditioningHortonville, WIListed in open place data
- Appleton Drain & Sewer CleaningLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Baumgart PlumbingSeymour, WIListed in open place data
- Besch PlumbingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Clearwater Plumbing ServiceSeymour, WIListed in open place data
- Contractors Supply & EquipmentAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- CSC PlumbingHortonville, WIListed in open place data
- Ditter Plumbing CompanyNew Holstein, WIListed in open place data
- Echelon PlumbingLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Emergency Power SystemsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Fleet Farm App 1Appleton, WIListed in open place data
- Geenen's Liquid WasteSeymour, WIListed in open place data
- Gerritts PlumbingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Greenville PlumbingGreenville, WIListed in open place data
- Hansen Plumbing IncGreenville, WIListed in open place data
- Happy PlumberLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Homefree USAAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- J L EnterprisesSeymour, WIListed in open place data
- J T Schmidt PlumbingCombined Locks, WIListed in open place data
- Kampo R J Plumbing & HeatingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Ken's PlumbingSherwood, WIListed in open place data
- Kuettel's Septic ServiceHortonville, WIListed in open place data
- Lecker Septic SystemShiocton, WIListed in open place data
- Lee's PlumbingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Locy ElectricAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Moehn PlumbingChilton, WIListed in open place data
- Mueller PlumbingChilton, WIListed in open place data
- Oneida Tribe Of Indians Of WisconsinOneida, WIListed in open place data
- Outagamie Plumber ProAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Performance Plumbing Services LLCShiocton, WIListed in open place data
- Rebman PlumbingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Reliable RooterLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Rick Groeschl PlumbingMalone, WIListed in open place data
- Rock Road PlumbingBlack Creek, WIListed in open place data
- Sadler Sewer & Drain CleaningBlack Creek, WIListed in open place data
- Seal Pipe LiningAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- T & J Plumbing of FreedomFreedom, WIListed in open place data
- Tailored Homes & DevelopmentAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Todd's Sewer & Drain CleaningNew Holstein, WIListed in open place data
- Trenchless Sewer SolutionsLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Tureks Plumbing ServicesAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Van's Septic ServiceKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
- Wellnitz PlumbingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Wilde Plumbing & Home ImprovementKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
Other trades in Appleton
- Cleaning 38
- Electrical 52
- Flooring 49
- HVAC 57
- Landscaping 101
- Painting 37
- Pest control 20
- Roofing 61
- Other home service 543
- All trades in Appleton
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Appleton, so it is answered on the overview above instead.