NAICS 323111 · California overview

Commercial Printing in San Bernardino County

San Bernardino County had 78 Printing establishments in 2023, ranking 6 of 35 California counties and accounting for 4.1% of the statewide total.

Establishments (2023)
78
Rank 6 of 35 counties
Employees
784
Mid-March employment
Annual payroll
$40M
All establishments
Per 10k residents
0.4
2,224,091 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
86
2026Q1
Employment
698
Quarter-end level
Average weekly wage
$1,159
Per covered worker
Quarterly trend
0.0%
2025Q2 to 2026Q1
Concentration vs the national averageBLS, 2026Q1

0.54 location quotient. Printing employment in San Bernardino County is about 1.9 times less 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 Printing in San Bernardino County. 22 of 78 establishments (28%) employ 10 or more people, the practical floor for most acquisition financing.

EmployeesEstablishmentsShareDistribution
1-44253.8%
5-91417.9%
10-191215.4%
20-4979.0%
50-9933.8%

Establishment trend

Year-over-year establishment counts, County Business Patterns. Net growth of 13.0% since 2020.

YearEstablishmentsChange
202069n/a
202180+11
202279-1
202378-1

How this market compares

San Bernardino 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.

Typical0.4 per 10,000 residents, against a state median of 0.4

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

Vs state median
-8%
Businesses per resident
Rank by count
#6
of 35 counties
Rank by density
#19
of 35 ranked
Since 2020
+13%
Change in establishments

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

Business size mix

San Bernardino tracks the California size distribution closely.

Share of establishmentsSan BernardinoCaliforniaDifference
Under 5 employeesOwner-operated, often no management layer53.8%55.8%-2.0%
5 to 49 employeesThe range most individual buyers target42.3%36.1%+6.2%
10 or more employeesPractical floor for acquisition financing28.2%20.8%+7.4%

What acquirers look at

Secular decline in general print, but wide-format, packaging and labels are growing. Equipment collateral supports SBA leverage where cash flow alone would not.

Cities in San Bernardino

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

Other industries in San Bernardino

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.