How many are licensed in Rhode Island, what level they hold, and how that compares per resident.
As of August 10, 2026, Rhode Island has 1,912 licensed plumbers on its state register.
This register has not been re-collected since August 10, 2026, 57 days ago. Every figure below is real and is stated as of that date, but it is not nightly-fresh the way the rest of this site is: Rhode Island is one of the registers ATI cannot currently sweep on a schedule. Treat these counts as a dated snapshot, and see Sources for which registers are affected and why.
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“How many plumbers” has more than one honest answer, and published figures disagree because they count different things without saying so. Here is each measure ATI holds for Rhode Island, named.
| Measure | Count | What it counts |
|---|---|---|
| Licensed workers on the state register | 1,912 | Records the register does not mark expired, revoked or surrendered, and that it evidences as a license actually held. This is the figure every ATI surface reports as `current`, and the figure this page leads with. |
| Industry employment (BLS QCEW) | 4,157 | Everyone on the payroll of establishments in this industry, including office and sales staff, and counting a person once per job rather than once per license. |
| Estimated workers in this occupation (ATI model) | 1,761 | Not a published figure: county construction employment scaled by this occupation's share of the metro workforce. An estimate, shown as one. |
| Employer establishments | 472 | Physical business locations, not people. BLS QCEW where the county is disclosed, otherwise an ATI estimate on the same occupation share. |
| Registered apprentices | 196 | In a registered program, working toward a license but not yet holding one. |
ATI's headline figure is the first row: individual people holding an active license, counted from the state register itself and refreshed nightly. See methodology and sources.
| State | Licensed plumbers | Per 100k |
|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 2,617 | 20.2 |
| Tennessee | 2,315 | — |
| Rhode Island | 1,912 | 174.5 |
| Montana | 1,900 | 167.7 |
| Nebraska | 1,305 | — |
Rhode Island is part of 415,580 licensed plumbers nationally, and ranks #19 of 32 published states by per-capita density.
RI's register has not been re-collected in 57 days, so this page will not change tonight and the figure above stands as of August 10, 2026. Every other market ATI tracks refreshes nightly: track one and see which contractors just got licensed, added a trade, or dropped off, and pull the full record on any of them. ATI is in private beta; apply for access.
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