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Painting contractors in Kansas City, MO-KS

The Kansas City, MO-KS metro area has 214 painting contractors, or 0.96 per 10,000 residents.

What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. Missouri publishes no business-level licence source for painting, so this page shows no licensed share; the Missouri page says what it does publish.

The facts

Painting contractors in this metro
214
Per 10,000 residents
0.96 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
3
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Missouri. 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
209 independent, 0 franchise brand, 4 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.87% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,221,343, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about painting in Kansas City

By record count, painting is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Kansas City, behind electrical and ahead of pest control. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Kansas City.

Per resident, Kansas City carries fewer painting records than Missouri as a whole.

The independent share of Kansas City's painting records is close to the Missouri figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far more of Kansas City's painting records carry no street address than across Missouri. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

Missouri publishes no business-level licence source for painting that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Kansas City 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 Kansas City, 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 Kansas City carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Kansas City painting records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Kansas City's painting records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More painting records first appeared in Kansas City 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 Kansas City 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 Missouri metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Kansas City 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 Missouri.

Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Kansas City are New Orleans-Metairie above it and Knoxville below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

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

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