There are 93,956 plumbing & hvac contractors across the 387 U.S. metros we track - an average of 32.5 per 100,000 residents (the typical metro has 31.9). The least-saturated markets have the most room for a well-marketed HVAC business. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (2022) and Population Estimates (2023).
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All 387 plumbing & hvac contractors markets by state
Number shown is plumbing & hvac contractors per 100,000 residents. Lower = less saturated.
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Anniston24.9Auburn25.3Birmingham35.1Daphne46.9Decatur42.9Dothan28.7Florence30.9Gadsden31Huntsville29.4Mobile33.3Montgomery25.9Tuscaloosa27.3CA
Bakersfield22.4Chico32.8El Centro19.5Fresno22.4Hanford17Los Angeles28.8Merced19.5Modesto27.7Napa35.3Oxnard38.7Redding37.1Riverside29.3Sacramento31.5Salinas27.9San Diego32.5San Francisco26San Jose26.7San Luis Obispo42.3Santa Cruz36.7Santa Maria40.8Santa Rosa51.1Stockton24.7Vallejo24.9Visalia19.8Yuba City25.6FL
Cape Coral64.1Crestview44Deltona40.3Gainesville32.1Homosassa Springs34.2Jacksonville34.2Lakeland28Miami41.5Naples49.2North Port51.3Ocala37.6Orlando33.6Palm Bay40.5Panama City40.2Pensacola31.7Port St. Lucie46.6Punta Gorda51.9Sebastian47.1Sebring39Tallahassee32.3Tampa41.7Wildwood16.5GA
Albany19.9Athens24.8Atlanta28.3Augusta28.1Brunswick40.5Columbus24.7Dalton19.3Gainesville40.5Hinesville21.4Macon23.3Rome17Savannah29.2Valdosta23.8Warner Robins23.9IA
Ames36.8Cedar Rapids31.2Davenport24.5Des Moines29.4Dubuque40.5Iowa City30Sioux City35.3Waterloo28.5IL
Bloomington28.7Champaign27.2Chicago33.4Decatur25.8Kankakee27.4Peoria38.9Rockford29.3Springfield31.2IN
Bloomington27.4Columbus33.3Elkhart25.2Evansville32.5Fort Wayne34.3Indianapolis27.3Kokomo32.2Lafayette27.8Michigan City33.1Muncie22.3South Bend26.2Terre Haute29KY
Bowling Green25.9Elizabethtown29.8Lexington34.8Louisville/Jefferson County33.8Owensboro40.9Paducah40.1LA
Alexandria37.1Baton Rouge31.2Hammond36.2Houma35.2Lafayette40.1Lake Charles36.2Monroe32.4New Orleans36.1Shreveport39.4Slidell52.3MI
Ann Arbor18.6Battle Creek26.2Bay City19.5Detroit25.5Flint23.4Grand Rapids29.3Jackson27.6Kalamazoo21Lansing23.2Midland28.6Monroe21.9Muskegon24.4Niles34.2Saginaw26.6Traverse City46MO
Cape Girardeau31.6Columbia36Jefferson City45.1Joplin28.3Kansas City28.7Springfield33.8St. Joseph34.6St. Louis29.7NC
Asheville49.1Burlington40.2Charlotte33.5Durham27.4Fayetteville23.2Goldsboro25.3Greensboro38.2Greenville29.1Hickory33Jacksonville27.1Pinehurst36.5Raleigh36.5Rocky Mount30.3Wilmington43.9Winston33.6NY
Albany27.9Binghamton25.8Buffalo26.4Elmira29.5Glens Falls32.7Ithaca22.2Kingston49.4Kiryas Joel48.8New York39.4Rochester28.6Syracuse27.4Utica21.6Watertown22.7OH
Akron23.9Canton27.3Cincinnati27.4Cleveland28.4Columbus21Dayton27.3Lima24.8Mansfield22.4Sandusky31.6Springfield25.3Toledo25.3Youngstown20.4PA
Allentown31Altoona35.8Chambersburg29.1Erie24.7Gettysburg30.9Harrisburg22.9Johnstown30.6Lancaster35.8Lebanon35.4Philadelphia33.8Pittsburgh35Reading36.5Scranton31.1State College23.4Williamsport31.9York32.1SC
Charleston32.7Columbia28.7Florence22Greenville32.9Hilton Head Island46.9Myrtle Beach39.8Spartanburg29.5Sumter26.9TN
Chattanooga28.7Clarksville23.2Cleveland21.6Jackson34.6Johnson City25.3Kingsport20.4Knoxville26.3Memphis25.5Morristown16.9Nashville26.7TX
Abilene42.4Amarillo41.9Austin31.6Beaumont27.8Brownsville16.9College Station29.1Corpus Christi35.9Dallas28.8Eagle Pass17.3El Paso24Houston25.2Killeen27.3Laredo20.4Longview32.7Lubbock41.7McAllen13.8Midland34.6Odessa24.9San Angelo39.8San Antonio27.6Sherman40.2Texarkana30.8Tyler36.7Victoria34.4Waco36.7Wichita Falls36VA
Blacksburg22.6Charlottesville32Harrisonburg28.3Lynchburg40.4Richmond35Roanoke35Staunton35.3Virginia Beach34.2Winchester36WA
Bellingham25.9Bremerton31.7Kennewick29.3Longview31Mount Vernon35Olympia25.1Seattle25.6Spokane31.5Walla Walla34.1Wenatchee46.5Yakima27.7Plumbing & HVAC Contractors market - FAQ
How many plumbing & hvac contractors are there in the US?
Across the 387 U.S. metros we track, there are 93,956 plumbing & hvac contractors, or about 32.5 per 100,000 residents on average. Counts are Census County Business Patterns establishments, not individual practitioners.
Which U.S. city is the least saturated for plumbing & hvac contractors?
Beckley, WV has the fewest plumbing & hvac contractors per capita among the metros we rank: 13.5 per 100,000 residents.
Which U.S. city is the most saturated for plumbing & hvac contractors?
Barnstable Town, MA has the most plumbing & hvac contractors per capita among the metros we rank: 91.1 per 100,000 residents.
How does the plumbing & hvac contractors market ranking work?
We rank 387 metros from lowest to highest plumbing & hvac contractors per 100,000 residents using U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns establishment counts and Census Population Estimates. Lower rank means less saturated.