What a Commercial Fence Costs in Sacramento (2026)

Six things set the number on a fence quote: the material, the height, how many feet, the gates, the ground the posts go into, and prevailing wage on a public job. Send the footage, the height, the material and photos of the site and we price it by phone.

How the materials compare

Chain link is the lowest cost per foot: $55 to $70 a foot installed on a 6-foot commercial run, with privacy slats and barbed wire priced on top. It covers a long perimeter for the least money, which is why yards, lots and job sites use it.

Ornamental iron is welded steel tube, powder coated or galvanized, at $40 to $120 a foot installed. The band is that wide because a plain flat-top panel at 5 feet and a custom spear-top run at 8 feet are both iron. It goes on frontages, apartments, retail and schools.

Security work costs the most: anti-climb mesh, heavier gauge, taller heights, barbed or razor tops. An 8-foot iron run backed with expanded metal sheet runs $140 to $300 a foot. Most of those are short runs, which lifts the per-foot number on its own. What closing off a fence costs, material by material, is in solid metal fence panels.

What it costs per foot

Those are furnish-and-install numbers, with the gate included where the job had one. The height, the style and the ground the posts go into move a job inside each band.

Why a short run costs more per foot

The setup, the drive and the crew’s day cost the same to build 25 feet as to build 250, so on a short job that cost lands on very few feet. A run under 50 feet has cost about two and a half times the per-foot price of a run over 150 feet. Runs over 150 feet settle around $70 to $90 a foot in the middle. That is the single biggest reason two quotes for the same fence look nothing alike, and it is why a per-foot number off a long job does not price a short one.

Gates and add-ons

Every gate is its own item, priced from the width, the type, and the hardware. A pedestrian gate at 3 to 4 feet runs $1,600 to $4,300 depending on whether it needs a panic bar and self-closing hinges for ADA. A rolling gate on V-track at 12 to 16 feet runs $2,100 to $2,700, and a double swing on a 12 to 24 foot opening $4,500 to $5,000. Automating one adds the operator and access control, $5,000 to $10,000 and up. Bollards and trash enclosures are their own line items, so put everything in the scope and one quote covers it.

Why the site changes the number

Posts in open dirt are the simple case: dig the footing, set the post, pour. When the line crosses concrete or asphalt, each post means breaking out the surface, core-drilling, clearing the hole and pouring, and that crew time shows up in the quote. Tearing out an old fence adds the labor plus the hauling and the dump fees. All of it prices from photos, so tell us what the run crosses.

How to get a number

Send the site address, a rough length and height, the gates you need, and a couple of photos of where it goes. If there is enough detail we quote from that; if not, we walk the site. There is no charge for the quote.