San Francisco, CA · Home Inspectors

Home Inspectors in San Francisco, by the numbers.

The Census Bureau counted 74 building inspection services in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area in 2023, employing 768 people with $83.5 million in annual payroll.

The local market.

Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.

Businesses

74

22nd most of 288 US metro areas

People employed

768

10.4 per business, against 3.8 across all metros

Annual payroll

$83.5 million

$108,751 per employee

Fewer than 10 employees

86%

of businesses, against 90% across all metros

Change since 2022

-7.5%

in the number of businesses (80 in 2022)

What the numbers say about San Francisco.

  • San Francisco is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of building inspection services, 22nd of 288.
  • Businesses here run larger than average: 10.4 employees each, against 3.8 across all metros.
  • Pay runs above the metro average: $108,751 per employee a year, against $63,676.
  • The count fell by 6 businesses since 2022.

How VERA helps home inspectors in San Francisco.

The same product everywhere. It prepares the work and waits for your approval before anything goes out.

Quotes from your fee schedule

Base fees, age and size adjustments, and add-on services priced from your own templates. The buyer accepts and pays from a link on their phone.

Booking that respects your day

A booking page with your inspection types that offers only times you are free, including busy time in a connected Google Calendar. Each booking arrives as a request for you to confirm.

A receptionist agents can reach

Your business number for calls and texts, answered by Vera from your service area, services, and policies. Urgent calls are put through to you.

Questions

Home Inspectors in San Francisco

How many building inspection services are there in San Francisco?

74 in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 768 people and paid $83.5 million in annual payroll.

Is the San Francisco market for home inspectors growing?

By number of businesses it shrank between 2022 and 2023: from 80 to 74 (-7.5%).

What does VERA do for home inspectors in San Francisco?

VERA drafts the quotes, invoices, follow-ups and customer messages a San Francisco business runs on, and waits for the owner's approval before anything goes out. It is the same software everywhere; this page adds the local numbers.

Home Inspectors in other markets

Other San Francisco markets

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 building inspection services, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.

See what VERA can do for your business.

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