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

Grow your contracting business in Kingsport.

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 Kingsport home-services market

Kingsport has about 56,262 residents, up about 1% since 2020.

15,042
Owner-occupied homes

About 54% of Kingsport'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 Kingsport 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.

$234,100
Median home value

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

$52,490
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 Kingsport.

Residential work in Kingsport is framed by the Holston River and the roads that actually move people across town: U.S. 11W, U.S. 23, and the northwest end of Interstate 26. The city runs from western Sullivan County into Hawkins County, with Mount Carmel to the west, Colonial Heights to the southeast, Bloomingdale to the northeast, and the Virginia line close to the north. Kingsport’s name still tracks back to King’s Boat Yard, the river shipping point at the head of navigation for the Tennessee Valley, and the Long Island of the Holston sits near the North and South Forks where early settlement, Cherokee history, and the Wilderness Road all meet.

The modern layout comes from the 1917 re-charter, when John Nolen’s “Model City” plan separated housing, commerce, churches, and industry and gave Kingsport some of the country’s early traffic circles. Eastman Chemical Company on Long Island, Domtar’s former paper mill site, and the Holston Army Ammunition Plant explain why generations of households stayed rooted here. Around those homes, residents still gather at the Netherland Inn, Bays Mountain Park, Warrior’s Path State Park, Fun Fest in July, and the Santa Train’s final stop before Thanksgiving.

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

Your free listing

Get found in Kingsport.

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 Kingsport 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, Hawkins and Sullivan Counties has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Kingsport. 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 Kingsport contractors.

Does it cost anything to get listed in Kingsport?

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 Kingsport?

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 Kingsport?

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, Hawkins and Sullivan Counties has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Kingsport. 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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