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Painting contractors in Raleigh-Cary, NC

The Raleigh-Cary, NC metro area has 273 painting contractors, or 1.81 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Painting contractors in this metro
273
Per 10,000 residents
1.81 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
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 North Carolina. 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
260 independent, 1 franchise brand, 10 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.36% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.73% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,509,231, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about painting in Raleigh-Cary

By record count, painting is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Raleigh-Cary, behind flooring and ahead of electrical. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Raleigh-Cary.

Per resident, Raleigh-Cary carries more painting records than North Carolina as a whole.

The independent share of Raleigh-Cary's painting records is close to the North Carolina figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Raleigh-Cary's painting records are missing a street address than across North Carolina.

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

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

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

More painting records in Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary 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 9 North Carolina metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Raleigh-Cary carries the most records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a painting page for rather than every metro area in North Carolina.

Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Raleigh-Cary are Providence-Warwick above it and Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

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

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