Metro fact page
Electrical contractors in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
The Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro area has 66 electrical contractors, or 2.52 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
- 66
- Per 10,000 residents
- 2.52 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 3
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
- 25.8%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
- 209Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 26
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 330 employed, $76,610 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $36.83.
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 66 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 1.49% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.52% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 261,547, 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville
By record count, electrical is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, behind plumbing and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Santa Cruz-Watsonville.
Per resident, Santa Cruz-Watsonville carries far more electrical records than California as a whole.
The independent share of Santa Cruz-Watsonville'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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville'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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville's electrical records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.
Almost every Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 330 workers across Santa Cruz-Watsonville, and this site publishes 66 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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, Santa Cruz-Watsonville carries the most records per resident. 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville are Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh above it and Springfield below it.
Electrical contractors, A to Z
52 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A J Winkler ElectricMount Hermon, CAListed in open place data
- All Home Repair 831Santa Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Alpha Omega ElectricScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- Alpha Omega ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Always Current ElectricBoulder Creek, CAState license on record
- Aptos Seascape ElectricAptos, CAState license on record
- Avila ElectricWatsonville, CAState license on record
- Beach ElectricalFelton, CAState license on record
- Bertschs ElectricScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- Buds ElectricWatsonville, CAState license on record
- Central Electric Co.Watsonville, CAState license on record
- Cheap Electric Contractors CompanyCapitola, CAListed in open place data
- Choice ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Coastline BuildingSpecsSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Corralitos Electric ServiceWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- D & D ElectricSoquel, CAState license on record
- D & D ElectricSoquel, CAListed in open place data
- D & H ElectricWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Darrel Varni ElectricWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Dave Wiegel Electrical ContractingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- DuFour StevenWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Evolve ElectricScotts Valley, CAState license on record
- Farrington ElectricSanta Cruz, CAState license on record
- Gee ElectricWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Giant ElectricSanta Cruz, CAState license on record
- Gilbert ElectricFelton, CAListed in open place data
- Green Lantern ElectricWatsonville, CAState license on record
- Hammer ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- High Performance ElectricWatsonville, CAState license on record
- IresSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- JJC ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- JLV ElectricBen Lomond, CAListed in open place data
- John Hope ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- John Hope Electric ContractorsSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Kathy's Lift Truck & Lighting ServiceWatsonville, CAState license on record
- Kaufmann Randy L ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Keene ElectricScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- Kirby Tim ElectricScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- L & M Fire ProtectionSoquel, CAListed in open place data
- Lightland ElectricFreedom, CAState license on record
- MarcomAptos, CAListed in open place data
- Nite & Day Power TechnologiesBoulder Creek, CAListed in open place data
- North Bay ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Pajaro Valley ElectricWatsonville, CAState license on record
- Richard Howes ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Shamrock ElectricBoulder Creek, CAListed in open place data
- State Electric GeneratorWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Sunrise ElectricAptos, CAListed in open place data
- The Electric Experts Santa CruzSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Tim Brown ElectricSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Tim Nestler ElectricFelton, CAListed in open place data
- Ullman Electric Co.Watsonville, CAListed in open place data
Other trades in Santa Cruz-Watsonville
- Cleaning 63
- Flooring 73
- HVAC 40
- Landscaping 108
- Painting 53
- Pest control 14
- Plumbing 68
- Pool 11
- Roofing 35
- Other home service 561
- All trades in Santa Cruz-Watsonville