We use public records to help you make a shortlist. They show what a contractor has filed and where they have worked in Sacramento County (unincorporated). They can't tell you whether someone will be right for your home.
California contractors doing jobs of $1,000 or more must hold a CSLB license.
82% of the 3,617 firms on the Sacramento County (unincorporated) permit file match an active license in the California CSLB license master file, matched by business name because County permits record no license number. Our match can miss a firm that files under another name, so a missing match is a reason to check, not a finding.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at CSLB license check. How to check a contractor's license in California →
The middle value recorded on this contractor's matching permits. It's a permit value, not a quote or the final price. Ask for a written estimate.
Matching Sacramento County (unincorporated) permits in the most recent year of our data. It shows recent recorded activity here, not every job the company did.
For contractors with at least 5 permits a year or more old, the share the County finaled or completed. A permit can stay open because of paperwork or timing, so this isn't a workmanship grade.
How long their permits take from issue to the County's finaled date, compared with other contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Matched by name against the California CSLB license master file, matched by business name because County permits record no license number. Name matching can miss a license, so always check the number yourself.
About the ranking: The score combines how much of this exact work a contractor has on record, how often their older permits reached completion (where we can measure it), how well their usual job size matches your budget, how recently they've been active, and how much of their work is near you. A measure we can't calculate is left out rather than guessed, and a thin record pulls the score toward the middle. A contractor whose matched license has a problem is listed after everyone else. You set the weights with the sliders on every list.
Sacramento County (unincorporated) specifics: These are County permits for unincorporated Sacramento County only (communities such as Arden-Arcade, Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Orangevale and Antelope); the City of Sacramento, Elk Grove, Citrus Heights, Folsom, Rancho Cordova and the other cities issue their own permits and aren't included. Sacramento County publishes no home values, so these pages can't show the kind of homes a contractor works on, a ZIP home value or a price comparison. The County's open permit data starts in 2021. About a third of residential permits name no contractor and others carry a placeholder (mostly homeowner and online permits), so only about 58% of residential trade permits can be ranked. In March 2025 the County re-stamped the issue date of about 12,000 older permits; for those the application date is used. The County's catch-all electrical, plumbing and mechanical permit is split into trades by its description, so a mixed job counts under its first trade (a heat-pump water heater with a panel upgrade counts as a water heater). Permits carry no license number, so licenses are matched by business name; a company with several licenses is tied to one of them, and the file leaves out expired licenses. Production builders dominate New Home. Demolition shows no speed. Locations are by ZIP code.
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