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Painting contractors in Visalia, CA

The Visalia, CA metro area has 36 painting contractors, or 0.75 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
36
Per 10,000 residents
0.75 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
22.2%
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
81
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
8
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
34 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 5.56% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 479,468, 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 Visalia

By record count, painting is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Visalia, behind pest control 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 Visalia.

Per resident, Visalia carries far fewer painting records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Visalia'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 Visalia'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 Visalia's painting records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

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

Of the Visalia painting records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 1 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Visalia'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 Visalia 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 Visalia 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, Visalia is 17th of 19 by records per resident, in the bottom 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 Visalia are Oklahoma City above it and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

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

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