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Pool contractors in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area has 157 pool contractors, or 0.34 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
157
Per 10,000 residents
0.34 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
6
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
15.9%
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
93
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
3
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
156 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.63% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.64% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 4,566,961, 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont

By record count, pool is the smallest of the 11 trades this site counts in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, behind pest control. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont.

Per resident, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont carries far fewer pool records than California as a whole.

The independent share of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont'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.

Fewer of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's pool records are missing a street address than across California.

A larger share of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's pool records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join here.

Almost every San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont pool record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More pool licences were issued in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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.

Some active California licences covering pool in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont have no matching record in open place data, deduplicated on the licence, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to pool cleanly enough to print, so San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont pool records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

No San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont pool record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More pool records first appeared in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont is 15th of 17 by records per resident, in the bottom quarter. 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont are Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford above it and New Orleans-Metairie below it.

Pool contractors, A to Z

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

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