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Plumber shortage in Mississippi: the licensed-supply numbers

Everyone quotes the shortage. Here is the count Mississippi actually has, by skill level and per resident, updated every night.

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As of August 24, 2026, Mississippi carries 3,087 licensed plumbers on its state register, or 105.0 per 100,000 residents.

3,087
licensed plumbers
105.0
per 100k residents
#31
density rank of 43

Mississippi does not issue a separate apprentice license for this trade, so no pipeline ratio is published here. The tier counts below are what the register itself records.

What level they hold

Every plumber license on the Mississippi register, normalized to one ladder.

TierLicensedShare
Intermediate2,19271%
Journeyman89529%

How this compares to nearby states

States nearest Mississippi on licensed plumbers per capita.

StateLicensed plumbersPer 100k
Mississippi3,087105.0
Florida30,002132.7
Illinois15,744125.5
Maryland6,702108.4
New Jersey9,09097.8
Delaware92789.8
Arizona6,47887.2
Counts, not a capacity opinion. We publish the licensed supply and the pipeline ratio; whether a market can absorb a given project is a judgement for the reader, not a claim we make.

Common questions

Is there a plumbers shortage in Mississippi?
Reporting on the shortage rarely states how many are actually licensed. Mississippi carries 3,087 licensed plumbers on its register as of August 24, 2026, or 105.0 per 100,000 residents. Readers can weigh that supply against demand directly.
How many licensed plumbers does Mississippi have?
3,087 on the state register as of August 24, 2026.
Where does the shortage narrative come from?
Industry analyses project national shortfalls of hundreds of thousands of skilled-trades workers against data-center and electrification demand. Those are demand-side estimates; the figure here is the licensed supply on the register today.

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