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

Grow your contracting business in Elizabethton.

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 Elizabethton home-services market

Elizabethton has about 14,374 residents, down about 1% since 2020.

3,779
Owner-occupied homes

About 56% of Elizabethton'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.

1963
Median year built

The typical Elizabethton home is around 63 years old. Housing stock ages on a predictable cycle, and roofs, systems and exteriors come due in waves rather than all at once.

$172,900
Median home value

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

$46,975
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 Elizabethton.

Elizabethton’s map starts with the Watauga River and the Doe River. The “Watauga Old Fields” were along the Watauga River valley at present-day Elizabethton, and Tiptonville was laid out on the banks of the Doe River near its confluence with the Watauga before the county seat was renamed Elizabethton in 1796 for Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb. For a residential contractor, the local anchors are concrete: Broad Street Extension on the east side above the Watauga, West Elk Avenue through downtown, and West Mill Street at Green Hill Cemetery.

Sycamore Shoals and Fort Watauga give the city a deeper footprint than its size implies. The Watauga Association was formed there in 1772, the Transylvania Purchase followed at Sycamore Shoals in 1775, and Fort Watauga became the staging area for the Overmountain Men before Kings Mountain in 1780. Carter Mansion, the oldest frame house in Tennessee, still stands on Broad Street Extension, while the S.P. Carter Mansion marker sits on West Elk Avenue. Work on houses here happens in a town where river crossings, Revolutionary-era sites, and downtown streets are part of the same everyday geography.

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

Your free listing

Get found in Elizabethton.

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 Elizabethton 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, Carter County has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Elizabethton. 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 Elizabethton contractors.

Does it cost anything to get listed in Elizabethton?

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 Elizabethton?

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 Elizabethton?

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, Carter County has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Elizabethton. 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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