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PARIS-PAINTING
Historic Home Market

Historic Home Market

Annual opportunity
Exterior repaint jobs available per year. Every input is either measured from our own records or a dial you can move.

The calculation

Paintable single-family owner-occupied homes built before 1940measured
Share that repaints the exterior each year10%
= exterior jobs available in the metro each year
Average job size, ZIP by ZIPmeasured 2024–26
Total exterior market, per year
Paris exterior revenue on this stock, 2026 projectedmeasured
= our share of that market today
The 20% share ceiling is gone, because we already beat it. In 55105 we are projected to take 32.8% of the exterior market this year. The old model capped the whole metro at 20% and used one metro-wide average job size, which is why it said 55105 was worth $0.85M when the ZIP has already booked $1.15M through 17 August. Both errors are fixed: job size is now measured per ZIP, and the benchmark is our own best-performing ZIP instead of an invented ceiling.
Why the repaint share is a dial and not a measurement. Our job history starts in 2018. A full exterior repaint cycle runs longer than that, so the data physically cannot show it. A 10% share means a 10-year cycle. Move the slider to see how sensitive the answer is — it is the single least certain number on this page, and it scales everything proportionally.

Total annual revenue opportunity by ZIP

Ranked by total annual exterior market. Market = paintable pre-1940 stock × repaint share × that ZIP's own measured average job size. Paris 2026 is our actual projected revenue there, all job types. Share compares our exterior work to the exterior market. Headroom is what we would add by reaching 55405's proven 2.43%/yr penetration.
ZIPCityPaintable pre-1940UntouchedAvg jobAnnual marketParis 2026ShareHeadroom
Avg job in italics is modelled from building value rather than measured, because that ZIP has fewer than 25 exterior jobs since 2024.

Is there anything outside Minneapolis and St Paul?

Short answer: not much volume, a few real pockets. Of paintable pre-1940 single-family owner-occupied homes in Hennepin and Ramsey, sit in Minneapolis and St Paul. Every suburb and small town combined holds the rest. Robbinsdale and Mound are nearly untouched; Edina proves a small wealthy pocket can be worked hard.
CityPaintable pre-1940UntouchedMedian valueOur jobs 24–26Penetration/yrOur $/job
Hennepin and Ramsey only — Washington, Dakota, Anoka, Carver, Scott and St Croix are not loaded yet.
Revenue & the path to $30M
Sold jobs only, by sold date, from the 17 August 2026 export. 12,552 sold jobs, $80.9M lifetime.
2025 actual
$15.90M
2,307 jobs · $6,892 avg
2026 projected
$18.96M
2,584 jobs · $7,338 avg
vs 2025
+19.3%
jobs +12.0%
Booked to 17 Aug
$12.82M
1,709 jobs
Yes — 2026 is tracking meaningfully better than 2025. $12.82M is booked through 17 August. Over 2021–25 the first 7.5 months carried 67.6% of full-year sold revenue (weighted toward the last two years). That puts 2026 at $18.96M, with a range of $18.2M to $20.1M depending on which year's seasonality you believe. Job count lands near 2,584, up 277 on 2025.

Where the revenue comes from

Segment202420252026 proj2026 jobs2026 avg job% of 2026
Res Ext lead paint is 57% of revenue and it is where the growth is. Interior splits almost evenly between lead and non-lead and runs at roughly half the job size. Commercial and multi-family is under 2% and shrinking. There is no siding-replacement line below because the CRM does not track one — see the note at the bottom.

Revenue by year, and how much is res ext lead paint

Where the growth came from

YearRevenueGrowthBiggest contributors to the change
Two-thirds of the last three years of growth is one segment. Res Ext lead paint added $3.18M in 2024, $0.94M in 2025 and a projected $2.12M in 2026. Interior lead was the surprise second engine in 2025 at +$0.91M. Commercial has gone backwards two of the last three years.

What one lead-paint customer is actually worth

First job wasHouseholdsFirst job $Follow-on $Lifetime multipleCome back
The measured waterfall is real but smaller than it feels — so far. Households first won on a res-ext lead-paint job have spent 1.11× their first job to date, with 13.6% buying again. Of that follow-on money, 50% is more exterior and 42% is interior, so the interior pull-through is genuine. But this number is censored. Our records start in 2018 and a repaint cycle is longer than that, so almost nobody has come due for a second exterior yet. The 2018 cohort, now 8.6 years old, is at 1.22× and 24% repeat — the highest of any cohort, and still climbing. Follow-on accrues at roughly 2–3% of first-job value per year with no second-cycle wave visible yet. Treat 1.11× as a floor, not the answer.

What $30M by 2029 requires

YearRevenueGrowthJobs at flat AJSJobs if AJS +5%/yr
16.6%/yr gets there from $18.96M. We have run 21.7%/yr since 2022, so $30M by 2029 sits below our own trend line. The lever that matters most is average job size: at +5%/yr we need about 3,300 jobs in 2029 instead of 4,088.

Things this data cannot tell you

Siding replacement is not tracked. There is no siding job type in the CRM. Across all 33,849 rows the words siding / Hardie / LP Smart appear 107 times, almost all of them customer surnames or lost-reason notes, totalling $286k of sold work that is already counted inside Res Ext. If siding replacement is going to be part of the $30M, it needs its own job type before it can be measured.

Carpentry is mostly invisible for the same reason. Only 149 projected 2026 jobs carry a carpentry job type, worth $0.57M. Carpentry sold as part of a painting project is inside the Res Ext line and cannot be separated from this export.

The CRM lead-paint checkbox is wrong 35% of the time. Of 7,695 sold jobs matched to a county parcel, the checkbox says “not lead” on 2,688 homes that were actually built before 1978. It almost never errs the other way (6 cases). Every lead figure on this page uses the county build year, not the checkbox.

Coverage. 69.4% of sold jobs match a Hennepin or Ramsey parcel. Dakota, Washington, Anoka, Carver, Scott and St Croix have no parcel data loaded, so jobs there fall back to the checkbox and are under-counted as lead.
Square footage is recorded by Ramsey County only.
Wood/frame
Stucco
Asbestos
Fiber cement
Brick
Alum/vinyl
Not recorded
Ramsey County records siding. Hennepin does not — those homes are “not recorded”.
Everything
Only untouched
Homes
Our jobs
Untouched Reached Sold job
Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, double-click to zoom in, arrow keys to nudge. Single-family owner-occupied only — condos, duplexes, apartments, townhomes, commercial and rentals are out. Aluminum/vinyl is off by default because those homes do not get repainted — switch it on to see them.

Biggest untouched clusters