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

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area has 1,238 roofing contractors, or 0.97 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Roofing contractors in this metro
1,238
Per 10,000 residents
0.97 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
98
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
4
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
16.2%
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
1,313
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
127
Employment and pay for this trade
5,480 employed, $63,560 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $30.56.
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,214 independent, 0 franchise brand, 18 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.64% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.48% 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 47-2181.

Row definitions: methodology page.

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

By record count, roofing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, behind painting and ahead of 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 roofing, 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 roofing 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 roofing records are missing a street address than across California.

A smaller share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's roofing records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. Read it as a measurement of the join between two files rather than as a description of any record below.

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

More roofing licences were issued in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim over the last twelve months than lapsed, so the licensed side of this trade in this metro grew. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering roofing 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 5,480 workers across Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, and this site publishes 1,238 roofing 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.

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

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

More roofing 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 roofing 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 roofing page for, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is 10th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by roofing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, the hubs either side of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim are San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont above it and Merced below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

1,187 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 3 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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