Metro fact page
Painting contractors in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
The Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area has 79 painting contractors, or 1.07 per 10,000 residents.
What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for painting, so this page shows no licensed share; the Iowa page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Painting contractors in this metro
- 79
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.07 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 2
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Iowa. No painting record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- Not published for this trade
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 75 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 1.25% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 737,164, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about painting in Des Moines-West Des Moines
By record count, painting is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Des Moines-West Des Moines, behind plumbing and ahead of flooring. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Des Moines-West Des Moines.
Per resident, Des Moines-West Des Moines carries fewer painting records than Iowa as a whole.
The independent share of Des Moines-West Des Moines's painting records is close to the Iowa figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for painting that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Des Moines-West Des Moines is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no painting record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for painting in Des Moines-West Des Moines, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.
No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to painting cleanly enough to print, so Des Moines-West Des Moines carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
Of the Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines'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.
More painting records first appeared in Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 3 Iowa metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Des Moines-West Des Moines carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a painting page for rather than every metro area in Iowa.
Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Des Moines-West Des Moines are Trenton-Princeton above it and Birmingham below it.
Painting contractors, A to Z
79 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- All Around Drywall Plaster RepairDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Allure PaintingWoodward, IAListed in open place data
- Baker PaintingPanora, IAListed in open place data
- Barnett's PaintingNorwalk, IAListed in open place data
- Blue Line PaintingWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Budget Painting And RepairsWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Caleb Roney PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Certa Pro PaintersUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Chapman RemodelingNorwalk, IAListed in open place data
- Clemen ServicesUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- College Pro PaintersDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- College Pro PaintersRunnells, IAListed in open place data
- Color AllGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Color Blind PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Colorview Paint & ContractingAltoona, IAListed in open place data
- CR PaintingUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- CR PaintingWindsor Heights, IAListed in open place data
- Cummings PaintingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- D & S Painting & DrywallDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- D and B PaintingPleasant Hill, IAListed in open place data
- Daso Electrostatic RefinishingAltoona, IAListed in open place data
- Davisdon PaintingColfax, IAListed in open place data
- Denny Lancaster PaintingWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Des Moines Painting Co.Clive, IAListed in open place data
- Dewitt PaintingUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Duel PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Duncan PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Ed Weir PaintingCumming, IAListed in open place data
- Ellis PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Exclusive PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Faux SandblastingSaint Charles, IAListed in open place data
- Gaby Esau CleaningClive, IAListed in open place data
- Gary Lewis PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Gatr Truck CenterWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- Gregcheno PaintingIndianola, IAListed in open place data
- Harmony PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Heartland Door & FrameDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Hughes ServicesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Integrity Painting & FinishingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- JC Toland PaintingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Jeremiah's PaintingGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Jim Williams Painting Co.New Virginia, IAListed in open place data
- Kerber Ron PaintingGrinnell, IAListed in open place data
- Kreative KoatingsCarlisle, IAListed in open place data
- L & S Professional PaintingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Lancaster PaintingNorwalk, IAListed in open place data
- Mautz Paint Factory StoresClive, IAListed in open place data
- Mautz Paint Factory StoresDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Michael Contracting ServicesPleasant Hill, IAListed in open place data
- Mid Iowa PaintingRunnells, IAListed in open place data
- Mike Holle PaintingNorwalk, IAListed in open place data
- National Wall CoveringsPolk City, IAListed in open place data
- Ned's Painting & ConstructionDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Osborne-Ford PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Painting by JenAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Perfection PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Performance PaintingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Pittsburgh PaintsUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Platinum Painting DrywallClive, IAListed in open place data
- PPG PaintsDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Pro PaintUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- ProFinishAdel, IAListed in open place data
- ProTect Painters of Des MoinesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Purscell CompanyDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Pyramid Wall SystemsWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Redstone PaintingWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Redstone PaintingWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Renaissance PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Rutter PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Simply Painting CompanyAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Smith DecoratingAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Smith Painting & SandblastingDexter, IAListed in open place data
- Sparks PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Squirter's Custom PaintWinterset, IAListed in open place data
- StonewallWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Teck General BuildersAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Tom's PaintingBondurant, IAListed in open place data
- Tonospray PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Zoab PaintingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
Other trades in Des Moines-West Des Moines
- Cleaning 85
- Electrical 92
- Flooring 74
- HVAC 142
- Landscaping 175
- Pest control 53
- Plumbing 82
- Roofing 105
- Other home service 1,330
- All trades in Des Moines-West Des Moines
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Des Moines-West Des Moines, so it is answered on the overview above instead.