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Electrical contractors in Merced, CA

The Merced, CA metro area has 27 electrical contractors, or 0.92 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
27
Per 10,000 residents
0.92 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
29.6%
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
74
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
16
Employment and pay for this trade
180 employed, $76,120 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $36.60.
Independent, franchise, corporate
27 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 3.70% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 291,920, 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 Merced

By record count, electrical is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Merced, behind roofing and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Merced.

Per resident, Merced carries far fewer electrical records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Merced'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 more of Merced's electrical records carry no street address than across California. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

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

Almost every Merced 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 Merced 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 Merced 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 180 workers across Merced, and this site publishes 27 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 Merced 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 Merced 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 Merced 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 Merced 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, Merced is 17th of 19 by records per resident, in the bottom quarter. 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 Merced are Visalia above it and Reno below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Merced

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Merced, so it is answered on the overview above instead.