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Painting contractors in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA

The Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro area has 91 painting contractors, or 1.89 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
91
Per 10,000 residents
1.89 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
26.4%
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
343
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
44
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
89 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.10% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 481,812, 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 Rosa-Petaluma

By record count, painting is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, behind HVAC and ahead of plumbing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Santa Rosa-Petaluma.

Per resident, Santa Rosa-Petaluma carries far more painting records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Santa Rosa-Petaluma'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.

Fewer of Santa Rosa-Petaluma's painting records are missing a street address than across California.

A larger share of Santa Rosa-Petaluma's painting records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join here.

Almost every Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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 Rosa-Petaluma 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 Rosa-Petaluma 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 Rosa-Petaluma carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Santa Rosa-Petaluma painting records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Santa Rosa-Petaluma painting record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More painting records in Santa Rosa-Petaluma were flagged closed over the last twelve months than first appeared, so the file for this trade and metro shrank. A closed flag is a signal contributed upstream, not a confirmed closure.

No city inside Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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 Rosa-Petaluma is 2nd 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 Rosa-Petaluma are North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota above it and Davenport-Moline-Rock Island below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

81 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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