Metro fact page
Painting contractors in Fargo, ND-MN
The Fargo, ND-MN metro area has 45 painting contractors, or 1.71 per 10,000 residents.
What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. North Dakota publishes no business-level licence source for painting, so this page shows no licensed share; the North Dakota page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Painting contractors in this metro
- 45
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.71 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 North Dakota. 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
- 45 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 262,620, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about painting in Fargo
By record count, painting is the seventh largest of the 10 trades this site counts in Fargo, behind cleaning and ahead of plumbing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Fargo.
Per resident, Fargo sits close to the North Dakota rate for painting, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.
The independent share of Fargo's painting records is close to the North Dakota figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
North Dakota publishes no business-level licence source for painting that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Fargo 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 Fargo, 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 Fargo carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
No Fargo 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 Fargo painting record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
No painting record in Fargo 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 Fargo differs from the metro enough on painting to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.
Fargo is the only North Dakota metro area this site publishes a painting page for, so there is no second North Dakota hub of this trade to rank it against.
Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Fargo are Durham-Chapel Hill above it and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue below it.
Painting contractors, A to Z
44 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- Able Painting & DecoratingMoorhead, MNListed in open place data
- Able Painting & DecoratingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Advanced Striping and SealcoatingMoorhead, MNListed in open place data
- Advanced Striping And SealcoatingWest Fargo, NDListed in open place data
- Attention To Detail Concrete CoatingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Attention To Detail PaintingWest Fargo, NDListed in open place data
- Barnyard BlastingKindred, NDListed in open place data
- Bastien DecoratingWest Fargo, NDListed in open place data
- Benjamins Painting Co.Fargo, NDListed in open place data
- Bills Painting & RepairMoorhead, MNListed in open place data
- Color-Tek Paint & SuppliesFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Craig Geron Decorating ArtistsWest Fargo, NDListed in open place data
- Cut Rite PaintingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Eklie PaintingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Erok Painting & DrywallFargo, NDListed in open place data
- General Maintenance Co.Fargo, NDListed in open place data
- Grant's PaintingDilworth, MNListed in open place data
- Hauck & Buchholz DrywallFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Hermanson Exterior Cleaning And RestorationCasselton, NDListed in open place data
- Hirshfield'sFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Hirshfield'sFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Hocking PaintingArgusville, NDListed in open place data
- Hudanis Taping & PaintingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- J R PaintingHarwood, NDListed in open place data
- Johnson's Painting & MoreFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Ken Oster Painting-DecoratingHorace, NDListed in open place data
- Kepler ServicesFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Martinson's Maintenance SystemsFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Minnkota WindowsFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Morris Painting & BlastingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Morris Painting & DecoratingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Rags To Riches PaintingMoorhead, MNListed in open place data
- Red River Drywall & Paint ServiceHorace, NDListed in open place data
- Red River Drywall & Painting ServicesWest Fargo, NDListed in open place data
- Rick Van Dyke PaintingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Shane Walock Painting PaperHorace, NDListed in open place data
- Stained Glass WorkshopFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Stoneberg PaintingMoorhead, MNListed in open place data
- Stoneberg PaintingMoorhead, MNListed in open place data
- Sun CompaniesFargo, NDListed in open place data
- United Industrial CoatingsFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Wallner StainingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Wien DecoratingFargo, NDListed in open place data
- Woodworth Painting & StainingWest Fargo, NDListed in open place data
Other trades in Fargo
- Cleaning 51
- Electrical 57
- Flooring 56
- HVAC 62
- Landscaping 105
- Plumbing 41
- Roofing 38
- Other home service 654
- All trades in Fargo
Pest control and Pool have fewer than 8 publishable records in Fargo, so they are answered on the overview above instead.