Toilet Repair in Tennessee

Weighted across 1,317,914 occupied homes. Separately, 52% of the state’s 1,438,554 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 110 towns we route in here, 1 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 53 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 62 are strongly owner-occupied and 4 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Tennessee

Tennessee licenses are issued by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Department of Commerce and Insurance, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Adams 95% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Alexandria 72% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Antioch 54% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Arlington 83% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Arrington 100% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Ashland City 78% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Atoka 86% owner-occupied · 19% pre-1990
• Auburntown 85% owner-occupied · 74% pre-1990
• Bell Buckle 97% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Bethpage 86% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Bon Aqua 92% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Bradyville 88% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Brentwood 83% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Brighton 78% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Brush Creek 98% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Burlison 81% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Burns 93% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Carthage 71% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Castalian Springs 93% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Cedar Hill 85% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Chapel Hill 84% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Chapmansboro 88% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Charlotte 94% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Christiana 89% owner-occupied · 18% pre-1990
• Clarksville 62% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• College Grove 89% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Collierville 80% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Columbia 72% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Cordova 61% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Cornersville 83% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Cottontown 90% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Covington 63% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Cross Plains 84% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Culleoka 92% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Cumberland Furnace 79% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Cunningham 96% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Dickson 75% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Dixon Springs 90% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Drummonds 81% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Duck River 81% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Eads 94% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Eagleville 91% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Elmwood 68% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Ethridge 87% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Fairview 81% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Franklin 72% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Gallatin 65% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Germantown 86% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Goodlettsville 68% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Goodspring 96% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Gordonsville 73% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Greenbrier 83% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Hampshire 92% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Hartsville 72% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Hendersonville 73% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Hermitage 55% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Hickman 73% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Hohenwald 82% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Joelton 84% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Kingston Springs 83% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• La Vergne 70% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Lascassas 96% owner-occupied · 26% pre-1990
• Lawrenceburg 71% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Lebanon 71% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Lewisburg 73% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Lyles 65% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Lynnville 83% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Madison 45% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Mason 68% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Memphis 48% owner-occupied · 78% pre-1990
• Millington 66% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Milton 87% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Moscow 77% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Mount Juliet 81% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Mount Pleasant 75% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Munford 86% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Murfreesboro 62% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Nashville 52% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Nolensville 94% owner-occupied · 14% pre-1990
• Nunnelly 86% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Oakland 86% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Old Hickory 79% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Orlinda 84% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Pegram 90% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Pleasant View 89% owner-occupied · 26% pre-1990
• Portland 75% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Primm Springs 91% owner-occupied · 18% pre-1990
• Pulaski 67% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Readyville 91% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Rockvale 87% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Rossville 90% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Santa Fe 92% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Smyrna 60% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Somerville 70% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Southside 75% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Spring Hill 74% owner-occupied · 7% pre-1990
• Springfield 69% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Stanton 72% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Summertown 76% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Thompsons Station 86% owner-occupied · 11% pre-1990
• Unionville 89% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Vanleer 82% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Watertown 82% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Westmoreland 68% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• White Bluff 78% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• White House 78% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
• Whites Creek 85% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Williamsport 90% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Williston 87% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Woodbury 73% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990