Funeral homes in California

851 trading, of which 404 are corroborated by a board or by two independent sources. That corroborated figure is 51% of the Census Bureau's count of 794 funeral home establishments with paid employees in California, and it is the one to judge us on. We hold 955 California records in total, the difference being 0 whose licence the board records as closed and 104 registry name matches nothing confirms. Where the trading count differs from the Census it is because state boards licence branches and crematories on different rules than the Census counts businesses.

Yes. The FTC Funeral Rule requires every funeral home in the country to hand you an itemised general price list when you discuss arrangements in person, and to quote prices over the telephone if you ask. You do not have to give your name to get a price, and you are never obliged to buy a package.

The California licensing board roster where the board publishes one, the NFDA member directory, the Parting funeral home directory, Funeral Consumers Alliance price surveys, the Green Burial Council and OpenStreetMap. A home is listed only when the board records it active or two of those sources independently carry it. Each home's own page links the sources for that listing.

The snapshot is September 2026. Licence statuses change, homes close and prices move, some of the survey figures here are several years old and each is dated on the home's page. Nothing on this site is a substitute for calling the funeral home, and the correction link on every page reaches us directly.