How many licensed contractors are registered in California?

The CSLB homepage counter reports 285,596 contractors on file: 231,261 active licenses and 54,335 inactive licenses across 45 classifications. The board has regulated California contractors since 1929 as part of the Department of Consumer Affairs, covering all 58 counties with zip-code-based contractor search.

Can I get California contractor license records at scale?

Not by hand at any serious volume. The roll is a present-tense table of roughly 285,600 licenses and every manual check returns one screen at a time, so account-list vetting and marketplace features need a delivered feed instead. Datadory scopes it for you: name the classifications, counties and statuses, and rows arrive with the full field dictionary attached, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly.

What can't the license roll tell you?

It is present tense, not an archive. The roll shows where each license stands now, disciplinary actions accumulate per licensee rather than arriving as versioned snapshots, and entities share the frame with their RMO/RME qualifiers - so collapse on the entity for company counts and keep both levels for accountability work.

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Contractor License Records California: How the Registry Works

1,744 datasets. Pick your catch. Every guide here is built on what the catalog can actually prove.

1,744 datasets. Pick your catch.

California's licensed-contractor roll at a glance (August 2026)

Dimension	Detail
Geography	All 58 California counties, with a zip-code-based search layer over the roll
Per-record fields	Classification, status, surety bond information, workers' compensation information, accumulated disciplinary history

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