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Painting contractors in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area has 1,361 painting contractors, or 1.06 per 10,000 residents.

What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. California publishes a business-level licence source for painting, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

Painting contractors in this metro
1,361
Per 10,000 residents
1.06 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
16
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
5
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
17.3%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. California licenses the business itself, so the share is measured against business-level records. About 47% of California licensees are sole owners, whose published address is frequently a home.
Active licenses with no public listing
3,566
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
475
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,335 independent, 7 franchise brand, 15 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.29% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.66% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 12,799,100, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about painting in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

By record count, painting is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, behind cleaning and ahead of roofing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim.

Per resident, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim sits close to the California rate for painting, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's painting records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's painting records are missing a street address than across California.

A smaller share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's painting records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. Read it as a measurement of the join between two files rather than as a description of any record below.

Almost every Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim painting record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More painting licences lapsed in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering painting in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to painting cleanly enough to print, so Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim painting records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's painting records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More painting records first appeared in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim differs from the metro enough on painting to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is 10th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a painting page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim are Birmingham above it and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

1,214 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 4 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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