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Painting contractors in Reading, PA

The Reading, PA metro area has 73 painting contractors, or 1.69 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Painting contractors in this metro
73
Per 10,000 residents
1.69 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 metro
There is no license source for this trade in Pennsylvania. 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
73 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.37% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 432,821, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about painting in Reading

By record count, painting is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Reading, behind flooring 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 Reading.

Per resident, Reading carries more painting records than Pennsylvania as a whole.

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

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

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

No Reading 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 Reading painting record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

No painting record in Reading 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 Reading 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 Pennsylvania metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Reading is 3rd of 9 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 Pennsylvania.

Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Reading are Evansville above it and Cape Coral-Fort Myers below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

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

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