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

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area has 684 pool contractors, or 0.53 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Pool contractors in this metro
684
Per 10,000 residents
0.53 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
32
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
12.0%
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
833
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
62
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
673 independent, 0 franchise brand, 6 corporate owned, 5 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.29% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.88% 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.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about pool in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

By record count, pool is the smallest of the 11 trades this site counts in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, behind pest control. 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 pool, 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 pool records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Address completeness on Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's pool records is close to the California figure.

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

Almost every Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim pool record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More pool 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 pool 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.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to pool cleanly enough to print, so Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim pool records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

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

More pool 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.

No city inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim differs from the metro enough on pool to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 17 California metro areas this site publishes a pool page for, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is 9th of 17 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a pool page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by pool records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a pool page for, the hubs either side of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim are Fresno above it and Jacksonville below it.

Pool contractors, A to Z

622 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 2 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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