Metro fact page
Painting contractors in Anchorage, AK
The Anchorage, AK metro area has 45 painting contractors, or 1.12 per 10,000 residents.
What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. Alaska publishes no business-level licence source for painting, so this page shows no licensed share; the Alaska page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Painting contractors in this metro
- 45
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.12 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 0
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Alaska. No painting record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- Not published for this trade
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 44 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 401,314, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about painting in Anchorage
By record count, painting is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Anchorage, behind plumbing and ahead of pest control. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Anchorage.
Per resident, Anchorage sits close to the Alaska rate for painting, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.
The independent share of Anchorage's painting records is close to the Alaska figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Alaska publishes no business-level licence source for painting that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Anchorage is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no painting record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for painting in Anchorage, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.
No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to painting cleanly enough to print, so Anchorage carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
No Anchorage painting record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.
Part of Anchorage's painting records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.
No painting record in Anchorage first appeared or was flagged closed over the last twelve months, so this page carries no twelve-month movement for this trade and metro.
No city inside Anchorage differs from the metro enough on painting to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.
Anchorage is the only Alaska metro area this site publishes a painting page for, so there is no second Alaska hub of this trade to rank it against.
Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Anchorage are Richmond above it and Springfield below it.
Painting contractors, A to Z
45 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- Advanced PaintingWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Alaska Aircraft InteriorsAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Alaska Painting SolutionsChugiak, AKListed in open place data
- Alaska Painting SolutionsAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Anchorage Painting AssociationAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Anchorage Painting ServiceAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Antler Painting & DecoratingAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Arctic DrywallAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Arctic Painting & ContractingAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- B and M PaintingWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Borreson PaintingAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Campbell PaintingAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Campbell PaintingAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- CaneteAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Central Gravel ProductsPalmer, AKListed in open place data
- Chu's Painting ServiceAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Colors By CharleyAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Dave's Painting & DrywallWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Direwolves Handyman ServicesAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Dixi ShopAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Exigo Specialty ContractingWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- F & M Proporty DevelmentChugiak, AKListed in open place data
- Fullmer's PaintingEagle River, AKListed in open place data
- Generations Paint & DrywallAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Image Drywall & PaintWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Jeno's ConstructionAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- JJ's Customs GeneralAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- KaneAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Kat Management ServicesAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- L K Painting ServicesAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Mason's Siding SupplyWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Mat Valley PaintingPalmer, AKListed in open place data
- Math-A Painting ContractorsAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- North Pole ContractorsAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Northwest HomesAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Perfectionist Painting and RemodelingPalmer, AKListed in open place data
- Picture Perfect Home RemodelAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Pioneer RenovationsWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Pro-Craft PaintingWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Rick's Handyman ServicesAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Rodda PaintWasilla, AKListed in open place data
- Ruf DrywallAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Sbs Professional Paint StoreAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- Tilmo PaintingAnchorage, AKListed in open place data
- True Colors PaintingBig Lake, AKListed in open place data
Other trades in Anchorage
- Cleaning 69
- Electrical 95
- Flooring 114
- HVAC 101
- Landscaping 104
- Plumbing 52
- Roofing 53
- Other home service 970
- All trades in Anchorage
Pest control and Pool have fewer than 8 publishable records in Anchorage, so they are answered on the overview above instead.