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Roofing contractors in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA

The Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro area has 35 roofing contractors, or 1.34 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
35
Per 10,000 residents
1.34 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
0
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
20.0%
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
45
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
1
Employment and pay for this trade
140 employed, $61,640 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $29.64.
Independent, franchise, corporate
34 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% 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 47-2181.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about roofing in Santa Cruz-Watsonville

By record count, roofing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville.

Per resident, Santa Cruz-Watsonville carries more roofing records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Santa Cruz-Watsonville'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.

The share of Santa Cruz-Watsonville's roofing records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 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 140 workers across Santa Cruz-Watsonville, and this site publishes 35 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

No Santa Cruz-Watsonville roofing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

No roofing record in Santa Cruz-Watsonville first appeared or was flagged closed over the last twelve months, so this page carries no twelve-month movement for this trade and metro.

No city inside Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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, Santa Cruz-Watsonville is 2nd of 19 by records per resident, inside the top quarter. 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville are Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom above it and Roanoke below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

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

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