San Diego, CA · Contractors
Contractors in San Diego, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 2,390 residential building contractors in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area in 2023, employing 12,501 people with $1 billion in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
2,390
15th most of 387 US metro areas
12,501
5.2 per business, against 4.4 across all metros
$1 billion
$82,835 per employee
89%
of businesses, against 91% across all metros
+1.3%
in the number of businesses (2,359 in 2022)
What the numbers say about San Diego.
- San Diego is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of residential building contractors, 15th of 387.
- Businesses here run larger than average: 5.2 employees each, against 4.4 across all metros.
- Pay runs above the metro average: $82,835 per employee a year, against $73,514.
- The number of businesses held about steady since 2022.
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Questions
Contractors in San Diego
How many residential building contractors are there in San Diego?
2,390 in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 12,501 people and paid $1 billion in annual payroll.
Is the San Diego market for contractors growing?
By number of businesses it held about steady between 2022 and 2023: from 2,359 to 2,390 (+1.3%).
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is residential building contractors, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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