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Painting contractors in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

The Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro area has 232 painting contractors, or 1.49 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
232
Per 10,000 residents
1.49 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
10
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There 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
228 independent, 1 franchise brand, 2 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 1,560,424, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about painting in Milwaukee-Waukesha

By record count, painting is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Milwaukee-Waukesha, behind electrical 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha.

Per resident, Milwaukee-Waukesha carries fewer painting records than Wisconsin as a whole.

The independent share of Milwaukee-Waukesha'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 Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha, 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

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

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

More painting records first appeared in Milwaukee-Waukesha 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha 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, Milwaukee-Waukesha is 3rd 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 Milwaukee-Waukesha are Wilmington above it and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

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

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