San Diego Contractor List With Phone Numbers: 295 Verified Trade Contractors (2026)
San Diego runs a high-volume permit feed — 3,043 permits in the last 90 days through June 18, 2026 — and 295 distinct contractor phone numbers sit inside it. Coverage is concentrated: about 10% of all permits carry a number, but the ones that do cluster in the residential trades you actually want.
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View San Diego leads →A contractor list is only worth what its phone numbers are worth. San Diego is a large, busy market, and PermitGrab indexes 3,043 permits filed in the last 90 days (ending June 18, 2026), with 2,283 of those in the trailing 30 days. Inside that feed we extract 295 distinct contractor phone numbers.
We will be straight about coverage. Across the full San Diego feed, only about 10% of permits carry a contractor phone number — a large share of the city's permit volume is traffic-control and right-of-way work pulled by utilities and municipal crews, and those records are nameless by design. So this is not a 90%-coverage market like Austin. What makes San Diego worth working is where the phone numbers land: they cluster in the residential trades, which is exactly the segment a sub or a remodeler wants to reach.
Where the Phone Numbers Actually Are
Ranked by distinct contractor phones over the last 90 days, the contactable San Diego work concentrates in:
- Residential combination mechanical / electrical / plumbing permits — 70 contractor phones. The single richest vein: HVAC change-outs, re-pipes, and panel work bundled on one residential permit.
- Combination building permits — 34 contractor phones. Whole-project residential remodels and additions.
- Non-residential and multifamily electrical — 32 contractor phones. Commercial and apartment electrical contractors.
- Photovoltaic / solar (SB-379) — 22 contractor phones. San Diego's solar mandate keeps PV installers filing steadily, and those permits name the installer.
If you run an HVAC, electrical, plumbing, or solar shop, those four buckets are the core of the list. The combo-permit records in particular put a phone number on a dated, address-level residential job — the opposite of a stale license-board export.
Why Fresh Beats Big
San Diego files thousands of permits a quarter, but volume only matters if it is current. Our feed is sorted newest-first and refreshes daily, so a re-roof or a panel upgrade pulled this week shows up while the homeowner is still mid-project and the contractor still has the job top of mind. A name and number attached to a permit from eight months ago is a cold record; a number attached to a permit dated this week is a warm one.
Who Should Work San Diego
Suppliers, distributors, and trade-service vendors use the list to reach active mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and solar contractors who are demonstrably pulling permits right now. General contractors staffing projects use it to find subs by trade. And solar and electrical installers watching the PV feed can see who else is working the same neighborhoods. Because coverage is trade-concentrated rather than blanket, the honest play is to filter to your trade and work the fresh records hard, not to expect a number on every permit.
How PermitGrab Delivers It
San Diego permits arrive in one daily feed, newest-first, with the permit type, address, filing date, and — where the city publishes it — the contractor name and phone on every row. One flat monthly price covers San Diego and every other market we track, with no per-lead fees. Size it first with our free permit lead estimator, then see plans and start working fresh San Diego leads.