Crab Orchard, TN · Free to list, free to stay listed

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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 Crab Orchard home-services market

Crab Orchard has about 980 residents, up about 36% since 2020.

380
Owner-occupied homes

About 77% of Crab Orchard'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.

1979
Median year built

The typical Crab Orchard home is around 47 years old. Housing stock ages on a predictable cycle, and roofs, systems and exteriors come due in waves rather than all at once.

$164,700
Median home value

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

$60,216
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 Crab Orchard.

Crab Orchard sits in Cumberland County on the Cumberland Plateau, where Interstate 40 and U.S. Route 70 squeeze through the gap in the Crab Orchard Mountains. That pass is the reason the town is where it is: travelers moved through it between East Tennessee and the Nashville area, first on an 1780s road built for protection and later on the Walton Road stage route between Knoxville and Nashville. Big Rock Mountain rises north of town, while Haley Mountain and Black Mountain frame the south side, so service territory here is shaped less like a grid and more like a mountain crossing.

For residential contractors, Crab Orchard is tied to materials and weather as much as roads. The local Crab Orchard stone, a durable sandstone, was used in local structures and sidewalks in the late 19th century before gaining wider attention in the 1920s through Scarritt College in Nashville and buildings in Crossville. Summers are hot and humid, winters are mild to cool, and the Lhoist North America limestone mine and plant dominate the south side of the gap along I-40 and U.S. 70.

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

Your free listing

Get found in Crab Orchard.

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 Crab Orchard 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, Cumberland County has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Crab Orchard. Nine counties did adopt it — Davidson, Rutherford and Robertson among them — so a job across the county line can carry a requirement this one does not.

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 Crab Orchard contractors.

Does it cost anything to get listed in Crab Orchard?

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 Crab Orchard?

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 Crab Orchard?

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, Cumberland County has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Crab Orchard. Nine counties did adopt it — Davidson, Rutherford and Robertson among them — so a job across the county line can carry a requirement this one does not. 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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