489 plumbers filed 1,810 plumbing permits on homes in the City of Somerville from October 2023 to September 2026; 261 filed one in the last 12 months. The most active in the last 12 months were Wellington Plumbing & Heating, Inc (21 permits), Bay State Plumbing and Gas Inc (17) and Akian Plumbing LLC (13); busy is not the same as careful. Somerville plumbing permits carry no filed job value, so this list compares firms on permits filed, finishing and recent activity only. Side by side: permits filed, share finished and permits in the last 12 months for each firm. Pick what you value and the list re-orders.
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Top 5 by plumbing permits filed in the last 12 months. This is volume, not quality: a busy firm is not necessarily a careful one.
The 3 ZIP codes with the most plumbing permits on homes from October 2023 to September 2026. Each opens permits by trade and the most active firms there.
Before you move a slider, the list is in a default order built only from the permit record: how much of each firm’s record is this kind of job (weight 30), how often its permits reached completion (25), how many permits it filed in the last 12 months (15) and how quickly its permits closed (10). Each measure is ranked against the other 489 firms and pulled toward the middle when a record is short.
The order comes from the Somerville permit file, not from reviews: 261 of 489 plumbers filed a permit in the last 12 months and 66% of their permits a year or more old were finished. Nobody pays to be listed or to move up, and there are no star ratings or reviews. The sliders and presets change the weights, and the order changes with them. How the records work in Somerville.
We do not rate contractors. In this page’s default order, which uses only the permit record through Sep 2026, the top 3 are James Thompson Plumbing & Heating (28 permits, 93% finished), Dico Plumbing and Heating LLC (21 permits, 88% finished) and Akian Plumbing LLC (23 permits, 83% finished). By permits filed alone, the most active is Bay State Plumbing and Gas Inc with 59.
489 firms are on the list; the busiest filed 21 plumbing permits in the last 12 months and the middle firm filed 2 in the whole file. Line them up on the same public measures: permits filed and share of permits finished. Pick what matters to you and the list re-orders, for example recent activity if you need someone soon. The order comes from the permit record only, and nobody pays to be listed or to move up.
489 firms filed at least one plumbing permit on homes in the City of Somerville from October 2023 to September 2026; 261 of them filed one in the last 12 months.
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Three you can check against this page: “How many plumbing permits have you filed in Somerville?” (the middle firm here filed 2; 261 of 489 filed one in the last 12 months); “What does your quote include: the permit fee and the city inspection?”; “Will you pull the permit in your company’s name, and when is the final inspection?” (66% of older plumbing permits here were finished). All 10 questions and how to check each →
On this page: 489 firms filed 1,810 plumbing permits from October 2023 to September 2026, and each firm’s name opens its own permit record. Every number comes from City of Somerville permit applications (issued permits only). To see one permit itself, search the address or permit number with the Somerville permit office. How the records work in Somerville →
Somerville plumbing permits carry no filed job value, so we can’t rank plumbers by price. Get two or three written quotes; ask whether the permit fee and the city inspection are included; shortlist from the 261 firms that filed in the last 12 months. What plumbing jobs cost in New York City →
We do not rate or collect reviews. Instead each of the 489 plumbers here is shown with its permit record: 1,810 permits and the share finished. Read reviews on other sites and use this page to check them against the record. Reviews vs permit records →
Every number on this page comes from City of Somerville permit applications (issued permits only): 489 firms filed 1,810 plumbing permits on homes in the City of Somerville from October 2023 to September 2026, and 261 of them filed one in the last 12 months. The middle firm has 2 permits in the whole file. A short record leaves more uncertainty, and some jobs never require a permit.
No usable job value is recorded for this permit type, so no typical cost is shown. See how we compare records.
Most Somerville plumbing permits are filed in January (125 against an average month of 100); June is the quietest (80). When each trade is busiest in Somerville →