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Painting contractors in Waco, TX

The Waco, TX metro area has 17 painting contractors, or 0.56 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Painting contractors in this metro
17
Per 10,000 residents
0.56 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
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 Texas. No painting record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file. Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
17 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 5.88% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 304,865, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about painting in Waco

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

Per resident, Waco carries fewer painting records than Texas as a whole.

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

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

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

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

More painting records first appeared in Waco 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 Waco 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 17 Texas metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Waco is 11th of 17 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 Texas.

Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Waco are Bakersfield-Delano above it and College Station-Bryan below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

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

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