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State registry

How many elevators are in California?

145,000 elevators and conveyances are on record in California (the state agency's own published figure).

Permit activity in California

The markets we track in California, with contractor leaderboards: San Francisco (3,602), Los Angeles (20,347).

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NEII Fact Sheet 2020: California has the most elevators at over 145,000. Device data from public state and city registries; see methodology. Permit activity (who is doing the work) lives on the market pages; the running national total is on The Count.