How much does water heater installation cost in Sacramento County? The usual water heater job filed with Sacramento County is $3,695, from 3,545 priced permits (October 2023 through September 2026); the middle half of firms file between $2,385 and $4,500. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.
The usual water heater job filed with Sacramento County is $3,695, from 3,545 priced permits, October 2023 through September 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $2,385 and $4,500. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A water heater permit here usually takes 38 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →
Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 3,545 priced permits across 363 firms, pooled into one. Half of Sacramento County (unincorporated) water heater permits were filed between $2,200 and $5,400.
| Percentile | Filed value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $1,000 | 1 in 10 permits filed below |
| 25th | $2,200 | 1 in 4 filed below |
| 50th | $3,600 | the middle permit |
| 75th | $5,400 | 1 in 4 filed above |
| 90th | $11,100 | 1 in 10 filed above |
Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months. Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.
| Firm | Permits | Last 12 mo | Usual | Middle half | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matulich Electric | 217 | 217 | $500 | $500 | — |
| Bell Brother's Heating and Air Inc | 539 | 181 | $5,226 | $4,826–$8,065 | 62.9% |
| Bonney Plumbing LLC | 415 | 152 | $5,374 | $4,800–$8,221 | 83.0% |
| A R S American Residential Services of California Inc | 247 | 80 | $3,605 | $3,130–$3,895 | 73.6% |
| Hot Swap USA LLC | 50 | 50 | $3,850 | $3,850 | — |
| On-Time Air Conditioning & Heating LLC | 139 | 48 | $4,470 | $3,921–$5,991 | 71.5% |
| Harris Water Heaters Inc | 166 | 46 | $2,075 | $1,979–$2,189 | 45.0% |
| Sierra Pacific Home & Comfort Inc | 50 | 30 | $3,834 | $3,425–$5,113 | 58.6% |
| J & D Greenberg Enterprises Inc | 77 | 26 | $3,263 | $3,000–$4,414 | 92.3% |
| Independent Plumbing Heating and Air | 56 | 26 | $2,262 | $2,037–$2,500 | 96.3% |
Line your quote up against the file. In Sacramento County (unincorporated), 1 in 10 water heater filed values sit under $1,000, the middle half between $2,200 and $5,400, and 1 in 10 over $11,100.
Sacramento County files the fewest water heater permits in November (80 against an average month of 100) and the most in February (137). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Sacramento County →
Source: Sacramento County building permits on single-family, duplex and townhouse homes in the unincorporated county (the County's Accela permit layer). The window is October 2023 through September 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.
Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.
The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.
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