Mount Carmel, TN · Free to list, free to stay listed

Grow your contracting business in Mount Carmel.

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.

01
The numbers

The Mount Carmel home-services market

Mount Carmel has about 5,472 residents, roughly flat since 2020.

1,870
Owner-occupied homes

About 87% of Mount Carmel'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.

1978
Median year built

The typical Mount Carmel home is around 48 years old. Housing stock ages on a predictable cycle, and roofs, systems and exteriors come due in waves rather than all at once.

$179,600
Median home value

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

$68,866
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 Mount Carmel.

Mount Carmel is a U.S. Route 11W town in eastern Hawkins County, with Kingsport tight on its east side and Church Hill on its west. For residential teams, that highway is the spine of the service area: it runs through town, heads east into Kingsport, and continues southwest toward Rogersville, the Hawkins County seat. The town even drew national attention in the mid-2000s for being laid out on only one side of the main highway; since then, Mount Carmel has acquired land across the road and built a cemetery there.

The older local story goes back to Hawkins County’s time as Spencer County, part of the short-lived State of Franklin under John Sevier before it returned to North Carolina. Modern Mount Carmel is closely tied to its neighbors, with retail and municipal services having shifted toward Church Hill and Kingsport, and the city discussing sewer connections to one of those systems after its sewer plant became insolvent. Families start children at Mount Carmel Elementary School, then continue through Church Hill schools and Volunteer Comprehensive High School.

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

Your free listing

Get found in Mount Carmel.

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

02
Straight answers

Questions from Mount Carmel contractors.

Does it cost anything to get listed in Mount Carmel?

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 Mount Carmel?

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 Mount Carmel?

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

Start free in Mount Carmel.

Claim your listing, set up your referral links, and see leads from contractors near you. No cost to join.

Get Started — Free

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