Metro fact page
Painting contractors in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
The Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro area has 53 painting contractors, or 2.03 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
- 53
- Per 10,000 residents
- 2.03 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 0
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
- 17.0%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
- 162Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 24
- Employment and pay for this trade
- Not published for this trade
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 53 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 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 261,547, 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville
By record count, painting is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, behind cleaning and ahead of HVAC. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Santa Cruz-Watsonville.
Per resident, Santa Cruz-Watsonville carries far more painting records than California as a whole.
The independent share of Santa Cruz-Watsonville'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.
A smaller share of Santa Cruz-Watsonville'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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
No Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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.
No Santa Cruz-Watsonville painting record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
No painting record in Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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, Santa Cruz-Watsonville carries the most records per resident. 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville are Boston-Cambridge-Newton above it and Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach below it.
Painting contractors, A to Z
47 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- Armstrong PaintingCapitola, CAListed in open place data
- Atkinson Painting & DecoratingWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Bartlett PaintingCapitola, CAState license on record
- Bill's Painting & DecoratingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Brent Garvey PaintingAptos, CAListed in open place data
- Bruce Sanchez PaintingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Bucher John T PaintingWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Clarke's Custom PaintingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Colorwave Painting CompanyCapitola, CAListed in open place data
- Cutting Edge PaintingAptos, CAListed in open place data
- Dave Knopf PaintingFelton, CAState license on record
- F & G PaintingFreedom, CAListed in open place data
- Farm Ranch ProductionsAptos, CAListed in open place data
- Fernandezs Painting ServiceWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Fine Line PaintingWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- GlasslightSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Gunnar Hassel PaintingSoquel, CAListed in open place data
- Harrison's Color CornerWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Hartje Tom PaintingCapitola, CAListed in open place data
- J's Custom PaintingLa Selva Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Jeff Bronack DrywallSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Juenemann PaintingCapitola, CAListed in open place data
- Kevin Foster ConstructionBoulder Creek, CAListed in open place data
- Kings Paint & PaperSoquel, CAListed in open place data
- Lance Sanchez PaintingCapitola, CAListed in open place data
- Ledesma & Sons PaintingSanta Cruz, CAState license on record
- Leneve Painting Co.Watsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Mark Davis Specialty PaintingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Mike Campbell PaintingScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- Phase Four Paint SpecialistWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Precise PaintingSanta Cruz, CAState license on record
- Pristine PaintingSanta Cruz, CAState license on record
- Revival PaintingBoulder Creek, CAListed in open place data
- S & S Powder CoatingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- San Lorenzo Valley PaintingFelton, CAListed in open place data
- Sierra Azul PaintingAptos, CAState license on record
- South Bay PaintingLos Gatos, CAListed in open place data
- Spectrum PaintingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- The Downey CompanySoquel, CAListed in open place data
- Those Guyz Painting ServiceBen Lomond, CAListed in open place data
- Transformational ColorAptos, CAListed in open place data
- Vernazza Painting Co.Ben Lomond, CAListed in open place data
- Vivid-Accent PaintingWatsonville, CAState license on record
- Walls PaintingSoquel, CAListed in open place data
- WatercolorsSoquel, CAState license on record
- WatercolorsAptos, CAState license on record
- Wilson Paul PaintingSoquel, CAListed in open place data
Other trades in Santa Cruz-Watsonville
- Cleaning 63
- Electrical 66
- Flooring 73
- HVAC 40
- Landscaping 108
- Pest control 14
- Plumbing 68
- Pool 11
- Roofing 35
- Other home service 561
- All trades in Santa Cruz-Watsonville