Water Well Drillers & Pump Installers in Texas: market size and renewals
The TDLR register lists 1,752 water well drillers and pump installers in Texas. The densest county is Out Of State County with 82 of them, 4% of the state total. 379 come up for renewal within 90 days.
Where the competition is
Licence counts by county, densest first. Use it to see how contested a patch already is before you spend money marketing into it, or to find the countys where the register is thin.
| County | On record | Valid today | Not valid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Out Of State County | 82 | 70 | 12 |
| Montgomery County | 43 | 41 | 2 |
| Harris County | 38 | 35 | 3 |
| Bexar County | 35 | 31 | 4 |
| Gaines County | 33 | 30 | 3 |
| Hays County | 28 | 27 | 1 |
| Erath County | 21 | 20 | 1 |
| Lubbock County | 20 | 19 | 1 |
| Brazoria County | 19 | 17 | 2 |
| Parker County | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| Kerr County | 18 | 16 | 2 |
| Midland County | 17 | 14 | 3 |
| Randall County | 17 | 16 | 1 |
| Tarrant County | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Ector County | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| Bandera County | 14 | 13 | 1 |
| Denton County | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Grimes County | 14 | 13 | 1 |
| Kendall County | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Medina County | 14 | 12 | 2 |
| Wise County | 14 | 11 | 3 |
| Montague County | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Tom Green County | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Uvalde County | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| Burnet County | 12 | 11 | 1 |
Renewal pipeline
Licences with an expiry date inside each window, counted from the board file. A licence that has already lapsed or been suspended is excluded, so these are people who currently hold a valid licence and have a renewal coming.
New water well drillers and pump installers per year
How many water well drillers and pump installers currently on the register were first issued in each year. Older years thin out as licences lapse and drop off the file, so read this as the surviving cohort, not as the number issued at the time.
TDLR does not publish an issue date in its public file, so there is no way to count new water well drillers and pump installers per year for Texas without inventing the number. The renewal pipeline above is published and is real.
Counted from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation public licence file, reloaded August 18, 2026. Figures describe licences on record, not businesses: one company can hold several. Confirm anything that matters at TDLR.