Metro fact page
Painting contractors in Kalamazoo-Portage, MI
The Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area has 47 painting contractors, or 1.79 per 10,000 residents.
What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. Michigan publishes no business-level licence source for painting, so this page shows no licensed share; the Michigan page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Painting contractors in this metro
- 47
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.79 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 0
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Michigan. 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
- 47 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 262,215, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about painting in Kalamazoo-Portage
By record count, painting is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Kalamazoo-Portage, behind roofing 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 Kalamazoo-Portage.
Per resident, Kalamazoo-Portage carries more painting records than Michigan as a whole.
The independent share of Kalamazoo-Portage's painting records is close to the Michigan figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Michigan publishes no business-level licence source for painting that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Kalamazoo-Portage 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 Kalamazoo-Portage, 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 Kalamazoo-Portage carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
No Kalamazoo-Portage 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 Kalamazoo-Portage painting record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
No painting record in Kalamazoo-Portage 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 Kalamazoo-Portage 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 6 Michigan metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Kalamazoo-Portage is 2nd of 6 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a painting page for rather than every metro area in Michigan.
Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Kalamazoo-Portage are Spokane-Spokane Valley above it and Cedar Rapids below it.
Painting contractors, A to Z
47 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- Again PaintingPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Again PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Alphenaar Jake & Son Painting & DecoratingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- American Flo BlastingClimax, MIListed in open place data
- American RedecorationGalesburg, MIListed in open place data
- Andrew Lehman PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Apex PaintingPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Applied Coatings SolutionsKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Big Red Painting CompanyPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Bridges PaintingPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Buurstra KlaasAugusta, MIListed in open place data
- Buurstra's Painting & WallpaperingAugusta, MIListed in open place data
- City Painting ServiceKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Clary Painting ServiceMattawan, MIListed in open place data
- DeWolff Painting & RepairKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Dow DecoratingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Fletcher EnterprisesKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Gilroy PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Hensley Paint & DrywallPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Hilborn PaintingVicksburg, MIListed in open place data
- J & J PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- J D's PaintingVicksburg, MIListed in open place data
- Joyner's PaintingRichland, MIListed in open place data
- K & M DistributingPortage, MIListed in open place data
- K & R Professional PaintingPlainwell, MIListed in open place data
- KDS PaintingMattawan, MIListed in open place data
- KDS PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Kite Decorating Paint-WllpprngKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Marlett DecoratorsKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Meersma Painting Co.Schoolcraft, MIListed in open place data
- Mellema PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Miller's PaintingPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Miller's PaintingPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Orbit Kalamazoo PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Painters & Glaziers Local No 312Galesburg, MIListed in open place data
- Palco EnterprisesKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Par-1 PaintingVicksburg, MIListed in open place data
- PMV Custom FinishesPortage, MIListed in open place data
- PMV High Performance CtngsKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- RFS Service UnlimitedPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Specialty BlastingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Stafford Paints and QuartKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Sweet Custom PaintingPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Vandermeer Paint & PaperRichland, MIListed in open place data
- Vandermeer Paint & PaperKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Washco Exterior CleaningPortage, MIListed in open place data
- West Michigan PaintingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
Other trades in Kalamazoo-Portage
- Cleaning 53
- Electrical 54
- Flooring 40
- HVAC 70
- Landscaping 104
- Pest control 27
- Plumbing 38
- Roofing 51
- Other home service 467
- All trades in Kalamazoo-Portage
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Kalamazoo-Portage, so it is answered on the overview above instead.