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Tire shops in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area

Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for tire shops in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area, set against other metro areas and the U.S.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 57 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #156 of 386 scored metro areas
#11 of 25 scored metro areas based in California

Listings
1,675
442 chain locations (26%)
Official establishments
600
−4.1% since 2019
Household spending a year
$4.9B
On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $1,079 a household
Spending per listing
$2.9M
16% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
3.7
3% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
12,844,441
−2.6% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on vehicle maintenance and repairs in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area comes to about $4.9B a year: $1,079 per household, 13% above the U.S. average. Spread across 1,675 tire shops, that is $2.9M per shop, 16% above the U.S. figure of $2.5M. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only tire shops.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area has 1,675 tire shops on map listings as of September 2026. 442 of them (26%) are chain locations, against 39% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 3.7, 3% below the U.S. rate of 3.8.

Official counts show 600 businesses with payroll classed as tire dealers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area in 2023, down 4.1% from 2019. That is one for every 7,499 households, against one for every 6,381 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 21 SBA-backed loans worth $12.1M have gone to businesses classed as tire dealers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area declined 2.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For tire shops, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area has a Groundwork market score of 57 (upper middle): #156 of 386 scored metro areas and #11 of 25 scored metro areas based in California.

How the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area compares

The same measures for California and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle maintenance and repairs by the tire shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Tire shops in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area compared with California and the U.S.
MeasureLos Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro areaCaliforniaU.S.
Listings per 10k households3.73.93.8
Spending per listing$2.9M$2.9M$2.5M
Households per official establishment7,4995,8786,381
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023−4.1%+1.3%−0.4%
Population growth, 2020–2025−2.6%−0.4%+3.1%
Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs$1,079$1,122$958
Median household income$95,958$99,122$80,734
Groundwork market score5752

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
600−4.1% over the period
Employees, 2023
3,954
Annual payroll, 2023
$214.4M
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
1,675442 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
1,938The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
21
Amount
$12.1M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as tire dealers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.

Population and households in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
12,844,441−2.6% since 2020
Households
4,499,409
Median age
39.5
Homes lived in by their owners
48%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
4,854 sq. mi.
People per square mile
2,673
Median household income
$95,958+31.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$135,506
Median home value
$871,300
Jobs located here
6,588,635
Daytime population
13,463,378Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Tire shops across California

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The highest-scoring metro areas in California for tire shops, numbered among those based in California, with the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area marked.

Top metro areas in California

Metro areas in California ranked for tire shops by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA731912.8$4.3M−0.6%#40 of 386
2Napa, CA69132.6$4.6M−3.3%#67 of 386
3Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA68272.8$4.4M−4.7%#77 of 386
4San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA674072.3$4.5M−2.4%#90 of 386
5Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA65863.1$4.1M−1.5%#99 of 386
6San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA65343.1$3.9M0.0%#100 of 386
7Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA61593.1$3.8M−0.4%#122 of 386
8Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA613103.5$3.2M+3.2%#125 of 386
9San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA603953.4$3.3M−0.6%#133 of 386
10Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA58473.1$3.7M−1.4%#146 of 386
11Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA571,6753.7$2.9M−2.6%#156 of 386

Other business types in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area

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Questions

How many tire shops are in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 1,675 tire shops in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area. 442 of them (26%) are chain locations. The listings count tire shops and tire dealers. Official counts show 600 businesses with payroll classed as tire dealers in 2023, down 4.1% from 2019.

How much do households in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?

About $4.9B a year, or $1,079 per household. That is 13% above the U.S. average (an index of 113, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1,675 tire shops on map listings, it comes to $2.9M per shop. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which tire shops share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,499,409 households in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area compare with the U.S. for tire shops?

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area has 3.7 tire shops per 10,000 households, 3% below the U.S. rate of 3.8. Spending per shop is $2.9M, 16% above the U.S. figure of $2.5M. At the U.S. ratio of tire shops to household spending, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area would have about 1,938, against 1,675 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 7,499 households, against one for every 6,381 across the U.S. The official count fell 4.1% from 2019 to 2023, against −0.4% for the U.S.

How fast is the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area at 12,844,441 people in 2025, down 2.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,499,409 households. The median household income in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area is $95,958 a year, 19% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 31.5% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.

What is the Groundwork market score?

The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area scores 57 for tire shops (upper middle), #156 of 386 scored metro areas.

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