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Roofing contractors in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area has 442 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
442
Per 10,000 residents
0.97 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
10
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
23.8%
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
405
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
31
Employment and pay for this trade
2,610 employed, $74,340 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $35.74.
Independent, franchise, corporate
433 independent, 0 franchise brand, 7 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.45% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.04% 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. 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont

By record count, roofing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, behind HVAC 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont.

Per resident, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont'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 more of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's roofing 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's roofing records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 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 roofing 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.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 2,610 workers across San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, and this site publishes 442 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont'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 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 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, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont is 9th 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont are Provo-Orem-Lehi above it and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

436 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 1 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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