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Water Heater Repair in Virginia
Across the 111 Virginia towns we route calls in, 82 lead on electricity and 29 on gas. Which one your own town leans towards decides what can go wrong with the tank in your basement.
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Virginia covers 111 towns here, of which 82 lead on electricity. The weighted shares are 49% gas, 47% electricity and 2% fuel oil — house heating fuel, which is the closest free proxy for what heats the water.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040.
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What Virginia burns
Weighted across 1,161,237 occupied housing units in the areas we cover:
| Fuel | Share of households |
|---|---|
| Gas — mains and bottled | 49% |
| Electricity | 47% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 2% |
| Everything else | 2% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. B25040 counts what heats the house, which predicts but does not measure what heats the water.
The largest towns we route
| Town | Leads on | Share | Households |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandria | Gas | 52% | 147,159 |
| Arlington | Electricity | 51% | 111,897 |
| Woodbridge | Gas | 52% | 69,862 |
| Fairfax | Gas | 55% | 61,521 |
| Manassas | Gas | 52% | 51,582 |
| Falls Church | Gas | 57% | 45,475 |
| Ashburn | Gas | 76% | 44,850 |
| Springfield | Gas | 58% | 35,386 |
Checking a plumber in Virginia
Virginia licenses are issued by the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Towns we route in Virginia
- Aldie gas · 79% of households
- Alexandria gas · 52% of households
- Annandale gas · 67% of households
- Ararat electricity · 73% of households
- Arlington electricity · 51% of households
- Ashburn gas · 76% of households
- Axton electricity · 70% of households
- Bassett electricity · 76% of households
- Berryville electricity · 51% of households
- Blacksburg electricity · 72% of households
- Blairs electricity · 72% of households
- Bluemont electricity · 56% of households
- Boones Mill electricity · 71% of households
- Boyce electricity · 47% of households
- Bristow gas · 85% of households
- Burke electricity · 54% of households
- Callands electricity · 54% of households
- Callaway electricity · 79% of households
- Cascade electricity · 83% of households
- Catharpin electricity · 41% of households
- Centreville gas · 64% of households
- Chantilly gas · 73% of households
- Chatham electricity · 67% of households
- Check electricity · 67% of households
- Christiansburg electricity · 78% of households
- Claudville electricity · 64% of households
- Clear Brook electricity · 77% of households
- Clifton gas · 64% of households
- Collinsville electricity · 85% of households
- Copper Hill electricity · 48% of households
- Cross Junction electricity · 65% of households
- Danville electricity · 67% of households
- Delaplane gas · 47% of households
- Draper electricity · 77% of households
- Dry Fork electricity · 68% of households
- Dublin electricity · 82% of households
- Dumfries electricity · 50% of households
- Dunn Loring gas · 75% of households
- Elliston electricity · 86% of households
- Fairfax gas · 55% of households
- Fairfax Station gas · 66% of households
- Falls Church gas · 57% of households
- Ferrum electricity · 74% of households
- Fieldale electricity · 69% of households
- Floyd electricity · 67% of households
- Fort Belvoir electricity · 60% of households
- Front Royal electricity · 60% of households
- Gainesville gas · 79% of households
- Glade Hill electricity · 66% of households
- Gore electricity · 48% of households
- Great Falls gas · 49% of households
- Gretna electricity · 60% of households
- Hamilton electricity · 47% of households
- Hardy electricity · 81% of households
- Haymarket gas · 69% of households
- Henry electricity · 74% of households
- Herndon electricity · 50% of households
- Hiwassee electricity · 85% of households
- Hurt electricity · 63% of households
- Java electricity · 66% of households
- Keeling electricity · 78% of households
- Leesburg gas · 64% of households
- Linden electricity · 73% of households
- Long Island electricity · 66% of households
- Lorton gas · 57% of households
- Lovettsville gas · 47% of households
- Manassas gas · 52% of households
- Marshall electricity · 64% of households
- Martinsville electricity · 69% of households
- McLean gas · 57% of households
- Meadows Of Dan electricity · 34% of households
- Middleburg electricity · 54% of households
- Middletown electricity · 61% of households
- Nokesville electricity · 55% of households
- Oakton gas · 52% of households
- Occoquan electricity · 56% of households
- Parrott electricity · 88% of households
- Patrick Springs electricity · 72% of households
- Penhook electricity · 86% of households
- Pilot electricity · 83% of households
- Pittsville electricity · 52% of households
- Pulaski electricity · 67% of households
- Purcellville electricity · 44% of households
- Radford electricity · 70% of households
- Reston gas · 50% of households
- Ridgeway electricity · 82% of households
- Riner electricity · 79% of households
- Ringgold electricity · 66% of households
- Rocky Mount electricity · 78% of households
- Round Hill electricity · 58% of households
- Shawsville electricity · 90% of households
- Spencer electricity · 76% of households
- Springfield gas · 58% of households
- Star Tannery electricity · 55% of households
- Stephens City electricity · 48% of households
- Stephenson gas · 57% of households
- Sterling gas · 54% of households
- Strasburg electricity · 70% of households
- Stuart electricity · 65% of households
- Sutherlin electricity · 63% of households
- The Plains electricity · 51% of households
- Union Hall electricity · 85% of households
- Upperville electricity · 86% of households
- Vienna gas · 65% of households
- Waterford gas · 51% of households
- White Post electricity · 38% of households
- Willis electricity · 65% of households
- Winchester electricity · 50% of households
- Wirtz electricity · 78% of households
- Woodbridge gas · 52% of households
- Woolwine electricity · 60% of households
Know the fuel and the symptom? That is most of the call.Gas and electric heaters fail in almost entirely different ways, so saying which you have gets you to the right person faster. We route the call and never charge you for it. Water heaters are what we write about; the number goes further.
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