Arizona Contractor Statistics 2026

Last updated: September 29, 2026. Every figure below names its source and date. We opened each government file ourselves and counted; nothing here comes from a search snippet or a third-party roundup. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.

Arizona contractor licenses in 2026

Source for this section: the Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC) posting list, a public CSV of every active license. File dated September 29, 2026, downloaded the same day.

• Arizona has 58,409 active contractor licenses as of September 29, 2026.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• 17,158 of those licenses (29.4 percent) are general building licenses (classes B, B-1 through B-5, KB-1, and KB-2). The rest are specialty trades such as electrical, plumbing, and air conditioning.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026, counted by license class.
• 3,624 licenses (6.2 percent) are KB-1 Dual Building Contractor, the class that covers both residential and commercial general contracting. Radiant holds one.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• Specialty Dual is the largest class type at 27,499 licenses (47.1 percent), followed by General Dual at 9,118 and General Commercial at 6,582.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026, counted by class type.
• 9,376 active licenses (16.1 percent) list a business address outside Arizona. California accounts for 2,677 of them, Texas 937, Utah 665, and Nevada 565.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026, counted by business state.
• The median active Arizona license is 5.9 years old. 6,731 licenses (11.5 percent) were issued in the past 12 months, 26,781 (45.9 percent) are under five years old, and 10,019 (17.2 percent) are 20 years old or more.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026, issued dates measured against that date.
• KB-1 licenses skew newer: the median KB-1 license is 3.7 years old, and 2,155 of the 3,624 (59.5 percent) were issued in the past five years.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• 5,150 active licenses were first issued in 2026 through September 29, including 485 KB-1 licenses. Licenses issued in 2025 and still active number 6,279.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026. Active licenses only, so earlier years undercount licenses that have since lapsed.
• The ROC's new-license list shows 4,084 licenses issued between March 2 and September 28, 2026. KB-1 was the most common class among them at 404 (9.9 percent), ahead of B General Residential (252) and CR-39 Air Conditioning (238).Source: AZ ROC New Contractor Licenses list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• 209 license applications were pending on September 29, 2026. The class applied for most often was KB-1, with 23 applications.Source: AZ ROC Pending Contractor License Applications list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• Arizona licenses run on a two-year cycle: 28,045 active licenses (48.0 percent) expire in 2027 and 24,418 (41.8 percent) in 2028.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026, counted by expiration year.
• The ROC's disciplinary list holds 485 actions against 216 license numbers: 384 revocations and 101 suspensions. That is roughly one disciplined license number for every 270 active licenses.Source: AZ ROC Disciplinary Actions list, file dated September 29, 2026. Some actions are temporary; check the contractor search for current standing.

Where Arizona's contractors are based

Counted by the business city on each active license, same ROC file. A contractor based in one city works across the Valley, so these are where businesses sit, not where they build.

• Phoenix is home to 9,215 active licenses (15.8 percent of the state), the most of any city. Tucson is second at 4,865 and Mesa third at 4,014.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026, counted by business city.
• Radiant's ten service-area cities hold 23,582 active licenses combined, 40.4 percent of every license in Arizona: Phoenix 9,215, Mesa 4,014, Scottsdale 2,606, Gilbert 2,012, Chandler 1,619, Peoria 1,450, Tempe 1,209, Queen Creek 1,029, Cave Creek 365, and Paradise Valley 63.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026. Arcadia is part of Phoenix.
• Those same ten cities hold 1,699 of Arizona's 3,624 KB-1 licenses (46.9 percent). Phoenix has 627 KB-1 contractors and Scottsdale 315.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• Paradise Valley has 63 licensed contractors based in town and Cave Creek 365, the fewest of the cities we serve. Most of the contractors working there are based somewhere else in the Valley.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026.

Arizona building permits in 2025

Source for this section: the U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, 2025 annual files for states and counties, opened September 29, 2026. Permit value is the construction cost declared on the permit, not a sale price.

• Arizona issued permits for 33,371 single-family homes in 2025, down 20.4 percent from 41,944 in 2024.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, state annual files 2025 and 2024.
• Counting apartments, Arizona permitted 51,532 housing units in 2025, down 13.6 percent from 59,616 in 2024.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, state annual files 2025 and 2024, all unit types.
• Permits for buildings of five or more units rose to 16,691 units in 2025 from 15,518 in 2024, up 7.6 percent, while single-family permits fell.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, state annual files 2025 and 2024.
• The declared value of Arizona's 2025 single-family permits was $10.35 billion, about $310,000 per home, up from about $295,000 per home in 2024.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, state annual files 2025 and 2024. Averages are total declared value divided by units.
• Maricopa County accounted for 17,244 single-family permits in 2025, 51.7 percent of the state total, down 20.4 percent from 21,667 in 2024.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, county annual files 2025 and 2024.
• Maricopa County's 2025 single-family permits carried a declared value of $5.97 billion, about $346,000 per home, up from about $330,000 in 2024.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, county annual files 2025 and 2024.
• Maricopa County also permitted 13,304 units in buildings of five or more units in 2025.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, county annual file 2025.

Phoenix-area permits by city, 2025

Single-family permits by city from the same Census survey, 2025 place file. Tempe is left out because the Census imputed its 2025 figures instead of receiving monthly reports.

• Phoenix issued 3,154 single-family permits in 2025, down 22.4 percent from 4,062 in 2024, plus 6,505 units in buildings of five or more units.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, place annual files 2025 and 2024.
• Queen Creek issued 1,504 single-family permits in 2025, the most of any suburb we serve, at an average declared value of about $489,000 per home.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, place annual file 2025.
• Mesa issued 1,069 single-family permits (about $329,000 average declared value), Peoria 984 (about $168,000), Scottsdale 369 (about $390,000), Gilbert 356 (about $254,000), and Chandler 167 (about $565,000).Source: Census Building Permits Survey, place annual file 2025.
• Paradise Valley issued 75 single-family permits in 2025 at an average declared value of about $2.32 million per home, the highest of any city in our service area.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, place annual file 2025.
• Cave Creek issued 31 single-family permits in 2025 at an average declared value of about $819,000 per home.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, place annual file 2025.
• Scottsdale permitted 1,600 apartment units in buildings of five or more units in 2025, more than four times its single-family count.Source: Census Building Permits Survey, place annual file 2025.

Arizona construction jobs

Source for this section: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, state and area, Arizona construction, seasonally adjusted, series SMS04000002000000001, pulled September 29, 2026.

• Arizona construction employed 228,100 people in July 2026, up 4,300 (1.9 percent) from 223,800 in July 2025.Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, Arizona construction, seasonally adjusted, July 2026 and July 2025.
• The preliminary August 2026 figure is 228,200. BLS may revise it.Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, Arizona construction, seasonally adjusted, August 2026 (preliminary).
• Arizona construction employment dipped through 2025 and recovered in 2026: 228,000 in August 2024, 223,300 in August 2025, 228,200 in August 2026.Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, Arizona construction, seasonally adjusted, August of each year.

Radiant Construction on the record

Our own numbers, checked against the same state file as everything above.

• Radiant Construction LLC holds Arizona ROC license #367703, class KB-1 Dual Building Contractor, status Active in the September 29, 2026 posting list.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026, row for license 367703. Check it yourself.
• The license was first issued August 26, 2026 and runs through August 31, 2028.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• The qualifying party is Shane McBurney, the owner. Arizona ties every license to a named person whose experience backs it.Source: AZ ROC posting list, file dated September 29, 2026.
• Shane has five years of experience building and remodeling homes in the Phoenix area. The license itself is new, so we say five years of experience, never five years licensed.Source: Shane McBurney, as of September 2026.
• Radiant is licensed, bonded, and insured.Source: AZ ROC record for license 367703 (license and bond); insurance confirmed by the owner, September 2026.
• Radiant lists seven services, from custom homes to commercial construction, and serves ten Valley cities.Source: this website, service areas page, September 2026.
• The ROC lists zero complaints against license #367703 as of October 3, 2026: no open cases, no disciplined cases, and no resolved or settled cases.Source: AZ ROC contractor search, license 367703 detail page, checked October 3, 2026. Check it yourself.

How we built this page

On September 29, 2026 we downloaded the ROC's active-license, new-license, pending-application, and disciplinary CSV files (the ROC dates each file the same day) and counted the rows with a script. Census permit counts come from the Bureau's 2025 and 2024 annual state, county, and place files. Employment figures come from the BLS public data API. We refresh this page quarterly and change the date at the top when we do. If you spot an error, email shane@radiant-construction.com.

To check any Arizona contractor yourself, use our Arizona contractor license lookup guide. To learn who is behind these numbers, read about Radiant.