Brownsville, TN · Free to list, free to stay listed

Grow your contracting business in Brownsville.

A free public listing, a referral program that turns past customers into new work, and leads from other contractors who already vetted the job. Built for the people who actually do the work.

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The numbers

The Brownsville home-services market

Brownsville has about 9,622 residents, down about 3% since 2020.

1,837
Owner-occupied homes

About 43% of Brownsville's housing is owner-occupied. Owners are the ones who pay for their own roofs, paint and HVAC — they're who a referral program reaches.

1975
Median year built

The typical Brownsville home is around 51 years old. Housing stock ages on a predictable cycle, and roofs, systems and exteriors come due in waves rather than all at once.

$158,100
Median home value

What homes are worth shapes what owners will spend maintaining them.

$43,494
Median household income

Household income is the other half of that picture — together they tell you which jobs a market actually supports.

Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates and Population Estimates Program.

The place

About Brownsville.

Brownsville reads from the town square outward: a Haywood County seat designated in 1824 and incorporated in 1826, built north of the Hatchie River as a cotton trading center for the lowlying Delta country of West Tennessee. General Jacob Jennings Brown gives the city its name, tied to the local story of a trading post southeast of today’s square. The older residential fabric is part of that plantation-era history, with places like the Eader House, Lucerne, and the Joshua K. Hutchison House marking the kind of pre- and post-Civil War building stock that still shapes how Brownsville looks.

For home-service teams, the drive pattern is concrete: U.S. Routes 70 and 79 wrap the south and east sides of Brownsville, with U.S. 70 running toward Jackson and the two highways together carrying traffic southwest toward Memphis. Interstate 40 sits south of town, closest at exits 56 and 60, four miles from downtown. The Hatchie River runs south of Brownsville, and the city sits near the New Madrid Seismic Zone, so local exterior work belongs to a place with floodplain country, earthquake history, humid summers, and cool winter stretches—not a generic West Tennessee grid.

Local detail drawn from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA.

Your free listing

Get found in Brownsville.

Every contractor on LeadChuck gets a public profile page — your trades, your service area, and your rating from other contractors on the network. It's indexed, it's free, and it stays free. If you're the first Brownsville contractor listed in your trade, that page is yours.

What you get

Four ways to get more work.

Everything below is in the same free account. Use the parts you want.

A public listing

An indexed profile page with your trades, service area and peer rating. Free, permanently.

How listings work →

A referral program

A permanent referral link for every past customer, and an unconditional thank-you gift card when they confirm a referral.

How referrals work →

Email marketing

Seasonal reminders that keep you top of mind with the customers you already have.

How email works →

Deals

Offers you can put in front of homeowners in your area when you want to fill a gap in the schedule.

How deals work →
Tennessee licensing

Know your license before you bid.

Tennessee requires a contractor's license before you bid or quote a price on any job totaling $25,000 or more, materials and labor together. That applies to the contractor running the job, and separately to electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and masonry work whose own share reaches $25,000. The license has to be in hand before the bid goes out, not before the work starts.

Below that, Haywood County is one of the nine Tennessee counties that adopted the Home Improvement law, so residential work in Brownsville from $3,000 to $24,999 needs a Home Improvement license — remodeling, roofing, painting, decks, driveways, pools and fences included. Most of Middle Tennessee has not adopted it, which is why the answer changes from one county to the next.

Licensing rules are set by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, not by LeadChuck. Verified 2026-07-30; confirm with the Board before you rely on it.

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Straight answers

Questions from Brownsville contractors.

Does it cost anything to get listed in Brownsville?

No. Your public listing is free, and it stays free. You only ever pay when you accept a lead another contractor sends you.

How do leads work in Brownsville?

Contractors send jobs they can't take to someone who can. The contractor sending the job picks who to send it to based on the lead fee that contractor has posted, so you're never bidding against anyone. You see the job before you decide, and you pay only if you accept it. Payment is by bank transfer — we don't take card payments.

What is the referral program?

Every past customer gets a permanent referral link. When they refer a friend and confirm it, that customer gets a thank-you gift card — you choose the amount — and it's unconditional: they get it whether or not the friend ever books a job. The friend never sees the gift card; they just arrive as a warm introduction.

Do I need a license to work in Brownsville?

Tennessee requires a contractor's license before you bid or quote a price on any job totaling $25,000 or more, materials and labor together. That applies to the contractor running the job, and separately to electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and masonry work whose own share reaches $25,000. The license has to be in hand before the bid goes out, not before the work starts. Below that, Haywood County is one of the nine Tennessee counties that adopted the Home Improvement law, so residential work in Brownsville from $3,000 to $24,999 needs a Home Improvement license — remodeling, roofing, painting, decks, driveways, pools and fences included. Most of Middle Tennessee has not adopted it, which is why the answer changes from one county to the next. Licensing is set by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, not by LeadChuck — confirm with the Board before you rely on this.

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Free to list · You only pay when you accept a lead · Bank transfer, no cards.