Metro fact page
Painting contractors in Appleton, WI
The Appleton, WI metro area has 37 painting contractors, or 1.50 per 10,000 residents.
What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for painting, so this page shows no licensed share; the Wisconsin page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Painting contractors in this metro
- 37
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.50 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 metroThere is no license source for this trade in Wisconsin. 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
- 36 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 1 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 246,433, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about painting in Appleton
By record count, painting is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Appleton, behind cleaning 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 Appleton.
Per resident, Appleton carries fewer painting records than Wisconsin as a whole.
The independent share of Appleton's painting records is close to the Wisconsin figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for painting that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Appleton 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 Appleton, 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 Appleton carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
No Appleton 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.
Part of Appleton's painting records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.
More painting records first appeared in Appleton 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 Appleton 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 4 Wisconsin metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Appleton is 2nd of 4 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 Wisconsin.
Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Appleton are San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont above it and Wilmington below it.
Painting contractors, A to Z
37 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- ABC PaintingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Action Painting and Epoxy CoatingsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Andropolis PaintingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Aniol's Painting & JanitorialAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Badgerland Paint Co.Appleton, WIListed in open place data
- Behnke PaintingStockbridge, WIListed in open place data
- Bob Stammer DecoratingHortonville, WIListed in open place data
- Colorfield PaintingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Corcoran Glass & PaintGreenville, WIListed in open place data
- Dave's PaintingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Diamond Vogel PaintsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- DipsticksOneida, WIListed in open place data
- Elite DecoratingNew Holstein, WIListed in open place data
- Elworth PaintingLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Fast Rack EquipmentAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Fireworksfree.ComMenasha, WIListed in open place data
- Fox Valley FinishingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Gitter PaintingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Holiday Painting & WindowsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Home WorxAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Hurlbutt Professional PaintingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Jim's PaintingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Korr Powder Coating SandblastingKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
- Kranzusch Elmer-JimAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Love T' PaintAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Pakala PaintingBrillion, WIListed in open place data
- Pirkey WorksLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
- Pribbernow PaintingBrillion, WIListed in open place data
- Quality Painter'sChilton, WIListed in open place data
- Reliable Powder CoatingKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
- Rw Hull & Son Painting ContractorsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Showcase DecoratingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Signature CoatingsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Spiegl ConstructionAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Valley Coatings & EquipmentAppleton, WIListed in open place data
- Wenzel PaintingBrillion, WIListed in open place data
- WOW 1 DAY PAINTING Wisconsin North EastKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
Other trades in Appleton
- Cleaning 38
- Electrical 52
- Flooring 49
- HVAC 57
- Landscaping 101
- Pest control 20
- Plumbing 46
- Roofing 61
- Other home service 543
- All trades in Appleton
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Appleton, so it is answered on the overview above instead.