NAICS 238330 · California overview

Flooring Contractors in Riverside County

Riverside County had 156 Flooring establishments in 2023, ranking 4 of 38 California counties and accounting for 7.1% of the statewide total.

Establishments (2023)
156
Rank 4 of 38 counties
Employees
749
Mid-March employment
Annual payroll
$36M
All establishments
Per 10k residents
0.6
2,544,916 residents

More recent reading

BLS QCEW, 2026Q1

The figures above are County Business Patterns, which carries the size distribution but runs about two years behind. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes quarterly, so this is the same industry roughly 3 years later. The two count different universes, Census counts establishments with paid employees in the March pay period and BLS counts worksites covered by unemployment insurance during the quarter, so the numbers are not directly comparable and either can be the larger.

Establishments
182
2026Q1
Employment
671
Quarter-end level
Average weekly wage
$1,052
Per covered worker
Quarterly trend
+2.8%
2025Q2 to 2026Q1
Concentration vs the national averageBLS, 2026Q1

1.61 location quotient. Flooring employment in Riverside County is about 1.6 times more concentrated than in the United States as a whole.

Computed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not derived here. Above 1.0 means the industry is a larger share of local employment than of national employment.

Establishments by size

Employee-count distribution for Flooring in Riverside County. 18 of 156 establishments (12%) employ 10 or more people, the practical floor for most acquisition financing.

EmployeesEstablishmentsShareDistribution
1-411070.5%
5-92717.3%
10-19117.1%
20-4974.5%

Establishment trend

Year-over-year establishment counts, County Business Patterns. Net growth of 12.2% since 2020.

YearEstablishmentsChange
2020139n/a
2021141+2
2022154+13
2023156+2

How this market compares

Riverside County against every other county in California on the same measure. The median excludes places under 2,000 residents, where per-capita figures are arithmetically true but analytically useless.

Typical0.6 per 10,000 residents, against a state median of 0.6

Close to the state median for this industry. Provision is roughly what the population would predict.

Vs state median
+3%
Businesses per resident
Rank by count
#4
of 38 counties
Rank by density
#17
of 38 ranked
Since 2020
+12%
Change in establishments

Density compares flooring contractors provision per resident. It does not measure revenue, profitability or whether a market is worth entering.

Business size mix

Riverside tracks the California size distribution closely.

Share of establishmentsRiversideCaliforniaDifference
Under 5 employeesOwner-operated, often no management layer70.5%69.9%+0.6%
5 to 49 employeesThe range most individual buyers target28.8%27.4%+1.5%
10 or more employeesPractical floor for acquisition financing11.5%11.4%+0.2%

What acquirers look at

Cyclical and tied to housing turnover. Commercial and property-management relationships are what make one of these worth buying.

Cities in Riverside

The figures above cover the county as a whole. These are the places within it.

Other industries in Riverside

Sources

  1. U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns. Establishment counts, employment and annual payroll by NAICS. Retrieved 2026-09-08.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (2026Q1). Quarterly establishment counts and employment for employers covered by unemployment insurance. Retrieved 2026-09-08.