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Electrical contractors in Bakersfield-Delano, CA

The Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro area has 75 electrical contractors, or 0.82 per 10,000 residents.

What electrical work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national electrical page. California publishes a business-level licence source for electrical, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
75
Per 10,000 residents
0.82 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
22.7%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. California licenses the business itself, so the share is measured against business-level records. About 47% of California licensees are sole owners, whose published address is frequently a home.
Active licenses with no public listing
414
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
49
Employment and pay for this trade
1,410 employed, $75,860 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $36.47.
Independent, franchise, corporate
75 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 913,820, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2111.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about electrical in Bakersfield-Delano

By record count, electrical is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Bakersfield-Delano, behind landscaping and ahead of flooring. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Bakersfield-Delano.

Per resident, Bakersfield-Delano carries far fewer electrical records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Bakersfield-Delano's electrical records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

The share of Bakersfield-Delano's electrical records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every Bakersfield-Delano electrical record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More electrical licences lapsed in Bakersfield-Delano over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering electrical in Bakersfield-Delano have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 1,410 workers across Bakersfield-Delano, and this site publishes 75 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.

No Bakersfield-Delano electrical record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.

No Bakersfield-Delano electrical record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More electrical records first appeared in Bakersfield-Delano over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Bakersfield-Delano differs from the metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Bakersfield-Delano carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Bakersfield-Delano are Killeen-Temple above it and Waco below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

74 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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