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The Census counted 2,118 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro in 2023, or 3.4 for every 10,000 residents (County Business Patterns).

Owners live in 66.9% of its occupied homes, the 5th highest share of the 25 largest metros (American Community Survey).

By NightshiftDirect Research. Updated . Figures read .

The metro in numbers

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro, by the numbers
MeasureHereMedianStandingSource
Homes lived in by their owners66.9%63.4%5th highest of 25ACS 2024
Average pay, plumbing and HVAC contractor jobs$92,524$84,5803rd highest of 13QCEW 2024
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors per 10,000 residents3.43.37th highest of 25CBP and ACS 2023
Change in plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors since 2018Up 3.5%Up 9.6%11th lowest of 25CBP 2018 to 2023
Median household income$90,850$92,34411th lowest of 25ACS 2024
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors2,118Not comparedNot comparedCBP 2023
Private plumbing and HVAC contractor jobs23,911Not comparedNot comparedQCEW 2024
Residents6,330,422Not comparedNot comparedACS 2024
Average pay, all private jobs$78,260Not comparedNot comparedQCEW 2024
Median and standing among the 25 most populous metro areas, or among those where BLS publishes the figure. CBP is the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, ACS its American Community Survey, and QCEW the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages from BLS. Each source links the public query that returns the figure.

What stands out

Owners live in 1,675,721 of the metro's occupied homes, 66.9% of them, in the 2024 survey (American Community Survey).

That is the 5th highest share of the 25 largest metros, where the median is 63.4% (American Community Survey).

An owner-occupied home is a household that hires for its own heating and cooling.

BLS counted 23,911 private plumbing and HVAC contractor jobs in the metro in 2024, paying $92,524 a year on average, against $78,260 for all private jobs there (Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages).

That is 18% above the metro's all-industry average, and the 3rd highest of the 13 metros where BLS publishes the figure (Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages).

Pay is one measure of what it costs an HVAC company here to hire.

2,118 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors against 6,246,160 residents in 2023 works out to 3.4 for every 10,000 people, the 7th highest of the 25 largest metros (County Business Patterns, American Community Survey).

That is one plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractor for every 2,949 residents.

The median of the 25 is 3.3, so this metro has 3% more per resident than the middle one (County Business Patterns).

More contractors per resident means more of them sharing each neighborhood's searches.

Counted over the same 11 counties in both years, the metro had 2,046 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in 2018 and 2,118 in 2023 (County Business Patterns).

That is a rise of 3.5%, the 11th lowest change of the 25 largest metros, where the median is a rise of 9.6% (County Business Patterns).

So there are more contractors to compete with than in 2018.

What these figures leave out

County Business Patterns counts establishments with paid employees, so a contractor who works with no paid staff is not in these counts (County Business Patterns).

The Census counts HVAC and plumbing contractors together, as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors (NAICS 238220), so every business figure here covers both (NAICS index).

BLS stopped publishing metro figures by industry with its third quarter 2025 data, so 2024 is the last full year of them (BLS notice).

None of these figures shows which businesses appear in Google's map results in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro, and we do not measure that.

None of our sources gives what a search ad click costs in this metro. LocaliQ's national averages for Home and Home Improvement are $8.33 a click and $90.92 a lead across its own customers' campaigns, not figures for this metro (LocaliQ).

Nearby metros

Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors per 10,000 residents in the nearest metros we publish a page for:

The same metro, other fields

Working with us in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro

We are new and have no clients yet, in this metro or any other.

One client per business category per metro area on the Local, Growth and Authority plans. A metro area is a U.S. Census core-based statistical area.

The work itself is on our local SEO page, what applies to every HVAC company is on our HVAC page, and every price is on the prices page.

Questions

How many plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors are there in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro?

2,118 in 2023 in the Census's table for the metro, counting establishments with paid employees, or 3.4 for every 10,000 residents (County Business Patterns).

Is the number of plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro growing?

Yes. It rose 3.5% from 2018 to 2023, from 2,046 to 2,118 on the same counties (County Business Patterns).

How these figures were made

How the figures are chosen and compared is on our method page. Each query below returns figures on this page.

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