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Flooring contractors in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

The Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area has 98 flooring contractors, or 2.22 per 10,000 residents.

What flooring work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national flooring page. California publishes a business-level licence source for flooring, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

Flooring contractors in this metro
98
Per 10,000 residents
2.22 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
9.2%
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
71
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
8
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
96 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 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 441,257, 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 flooring in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara

By record count, flooring is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, behind landscaping and ahead of plumbing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara.

Per resident, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara sits close to the California rate for flooring, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara's flooring records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

A larger share of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara's flooring 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara flooring record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More flooring licences lapsed in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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.

Some active California licences covering flooring in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 flooring cleanly enough to print, so Santa Maria-Santa Barbara carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara flooring records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Santa Maria-Santa Barbara flooring record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More flooring records first appeared in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara differs from the metro enough on flooring 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 flooring page for, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is 5th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a flooring page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by flooring records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a flooring page for, the hubs either side of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara are Fort Wayne above it and Denver-Aurora-Centennial below it.

Flooring contractors, A to Z

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

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