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Electrical contractors in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area has 1,992 electrical contractors, or 1.56 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
1,992
Per 10,000 residents
1.56 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
28
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
10
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
24.0%
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
7,773
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
1,026
Employment and pay for this trade
20,610 employed, $73,810 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $35.49.
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,985 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 7 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.45% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.30% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 12,799,100, 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

By record count, electrical is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, behind landscaping and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim.

Per resident, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim sits close to the California rate for electrical, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim'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.

Far fewer of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's electrical records are missing a street address than across California.

The share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's electrical records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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 20,610 workers across Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, and this site publishes 1,992 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.

Almost none of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's electrical records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More electrical records first appeared in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.

One city inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Glendale, differs from the wider metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is 9th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim are Cape Coral-Fort Myers above it and Spokane-Spokane Valley below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

1,807 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 6 further pages linked below, not withheld. The city pages below cover the same metro in smaller pieces.

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