Jackson, 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 Jackson home-services market

Jackson has about 68,435 residents, roughly flat since 2020.

14,107
Owner-occupied homes

About 47% of Jackson'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.

1985
Median year built

The typical Jackson home is around 41 years old. Housing stock ages on a predictable cycle, and roofs, systems and exteriors come due in waves rather than all at once.

$217,800
Median home value

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

$53,032
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 Jackson.

Jackson sits in Madison County, 70 miles east of Memphis and 130 miles southwest of Nashville, but its layout still reads more like a West Tennessee rail-and-cotton trade city than a suburb of either one. European-American settlement started along the Forked Deer River before 1820, the town was first called Alexandria, and the seat of justice was placed at Jackson because more settlers were on Cotton Grove Road and Jackson was closer to them than Golden’s Station or Alexandria. Cotton made it the trading town for the surrounding agricultural country, then the railroads changed its scale: the Mobile and Ohio reached Jackson in 1851, and later lines tied it north-south and east-west between Memphis and Nashville.

That history matters for residential teams crossing Jackson, because the city grew around old civic, rail, and company-town patterns. Downtown was devastated by an F4 tornado in May 2003; McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport was badly damaged in January 1999; Union University took major storm damage in 2002 and 2008; and a May 1, 2010 thunderstorm dropped 13 inches of rain, destroying homes and streets in flash flooding. Bemis, the former company town just south of Jackson, was annexed in 1977, adding another distinct residential pocket to a city already defined by the Forked Deer, downtown, old rail corridors, and West Tennessee weather.

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

Your free listing

Get found in Jackson.

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

Does it cost anything to get listed in Jackson?

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 Jackson?

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 Jackson?

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