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Water Heater Repair in Massachusetts

Across the 176 Massachusetts towns we route calls in, 152 lead on gas and 23 on fuel oil and 1 on electricity. Which one your own town leans towards decides what can go wrong with the tank in your basement.

Answer first

Massachusetts covers 176 towns here, of which 152 lead on gas. The weighted shares are 60% gas, 19% electricity and 20% fuel oil — house heating fuel, which is the closest free proxy for what heats the water.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040.

HeaterRelay is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no work, we sell no equipment, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.
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What Massachusetts burns

Weighted across 1,695,127 occupied housing units in the areas we cover:

FuelShare of households
Gas — mains and bottled60%
Electricity19%
Fuel oil and kerosene20%
Everything else2%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. B25040 counts what heats the house, which predicts but does not measure what heats the water.

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The largest towns we route

TownLeads onShareHouseholds
BostonElectricity51%70,349
CambridgeGas66%49,732
QuincyGas57%45,526
LowellGas70%42,383
LynnGas58%36,328
SomervilleGas74%35,295
DorchesterGas67%33,281
LawrenceGas71%31,009
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Checking a plumber in Massachusetts

Massachusetts licenses are issued by the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

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Towns we route in Massachusetts

Know the fuel and the symptom? That is most of the call.Gas and electric heaters fail in almost entirely different ways, so saying which you have gets you to the right person faster. We route the call and never charge you for it. Water heaters are what we write about; the number goes further.

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