Metro fact page
Painting contractors in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area has 70 painting contractors, or 1.59 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
- 70
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.59 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
- 20.0%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
- 279Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 30
- Employment and pay for this trade
- Not published for this trade
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 67 independent, 1 franchise brand, 2 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 7.14% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 441,257, 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 Maria-Santa Barbara
By record count, painting is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, behind electrical 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara.
Per resident, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara carries more painting records than California as a whole.
The independent share of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara'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 more of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara's painting records carry no street address than across California. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.
The share of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara's painting records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.
Almost every Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
Of the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara painting records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.
No Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara is 4th of 19 by records per resident, inside the top quarter. 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 Maria-Santa Barbara are Chicago-Naperville-Elgin above it and Rockford below it.
Painting contractors, A to Z
70 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A Woodard CabinertyBuellton, CAListed in open place data
- A1 PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Aker Bob PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- American CoatingsLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- American Construction Landscaping & MaintenanceLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Angelo's Painting Co.Santa Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Antigua Professional PaintingGoleta, CAState license on record
- ARC Handyman ServicesCarpinteria, CAListed in open place data
- Artcraft PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Augustine PaintingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Beau Brunner PaintingGoleta, CAState license on record
- Benjamin Moore & Co.Santa Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Bill Brown PaintingSanta Ynez, CAListed in open place data
- Blake Fuentes PaintingGoleta, CAState license on record
- Bourbon's PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Bradshaw Painting CompanySanta Ynez, CAListed in open place data
- Brunner PaintingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Cantrelle PaintingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Casanueva Construction ServicesSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Cenco PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Channel Coast CorporationSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- CIP Powder CoatingBuellton, CAListed in open place data
- Coastline Painting CompanySanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Couture S Professional PaintingLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Daly JimGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- De Wittt PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Doukas PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Dunn-Edwards PaintsSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Eddie Navarro PaintingSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Evolution 805 PaintingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Franz David Painting ContractorSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Frazee PaintGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Garcia PaintingCarpinteria, CAListed in open place data
- Garibay PaintingCarpinteria, CAListed in open place data
- Glidden Professional Paint CenterSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Guy Smithson Painting & DcrtngSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- International PaintSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- J & M PaintingLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Jeff Weindling PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- JL Prestige Painting INC.Santa Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- JR's PaintingSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Lieberman PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Mcnall PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Megálos Fences ServicesSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Meissner PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Mesa PaintingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Mesa PaintingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Mgb Industrial SupplyGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Nagelmann Painting & DecoratingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Nagelmann Painting & DecoratingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- New Life PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Ocean PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Poc Painting Co.Lompoc, CAState license on record
- Purling Painting & Finishing Inc.Santa Barbara, CAState license on record
- Radco ExteriorsSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Ryan PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Sagebrush PaintingSanta Ynez, CAState license on record
- Sanjuan PaintingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Santa Barbara Industrial FinishingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Santa Ynez PaintSanta Ynez, CAListed in open place data
- SBPlasteringSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Sierra Sandblasting and PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Simply Chic FurnitureSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- SR PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Steve's PaintingSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Tawzer PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Vargas PaintingLompoc, CAState license on record
- Westwind PaintingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Whitecaps PaintingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Wynne Painting & SandblastingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data