NAICS 812210 · California overview

Funeral Homes & Services in Sutter County

Sutter County had 3 Funeral Homes establishments in 2023, ranking 36 of 37 California counties and accounting for 0.4% of the statewide total.

Establishments (2023)
3
Rank 36 of 37 counties
Employees
9
Mid-March employment
Annual payroll
$691,000
All establishments
Per 10k residents
0.3
98,787 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
1
2026Q1
Employment
n/a
Quarter-end level
Average weekly wage
n/a
Per covered worker
Quarterly trend
0.0%
2025Q2 to 2026Q1
Concentration vs the national averageBLS, 2026Q1

0.20 location quotient. Funeral Homes employment in Sutter County is about 5.0 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.

Establishment trend

Year-over-year establishment counts, County Business Patterns. Net growth of 0.0% since 2020.

YearEstablishmentsChange
20203n/a
202130
20224+1
20233-1

How this market compares

Sutter 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.

Above average0.3 per 10,000 residents, against a state median of 0.2

More provision than the typical California market of this size. Usually a sign of genuine local demand rather than oversupply.

Vs state median
+23%
Businesses per resident
Rank by count
#36
of 37 counties
Rank by density
#11
of 37 ranked
Since 2020
0%
Change in establishments

Density compares funeral homes & services provision per resident. It does not measure revenue, profitability or whether a market is worth entering.

Business size mix

Sutter is more consolidated than California as a whole: fewer micro-operators and a larger share of businesses with real headcount. Fewer targets, but the ones that exist are more likely to be financeable.

Share of establishmentsSutterCaliforniaDifference
Under 5 employeesOwner-operated, often no management layer0.0%46.7%-46.7%
5 to 49 employeesThe range most individual buyers target0.0%42.2%-42.2%
10 or more employeesPractical floor for acquisition financing0.0%19.9%-19.9%

What acquirers look at

Multi-generational family ownership, preneed trust liabilities, and extreme community-reputation dependence. Preneed trust accounting is the diligence item that matters.

Cities in Sutter

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

Other industries in Sutter

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.