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White Paint

Maybe

An estimated 0.7% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so White Paint is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 38% of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · +2 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£1.3M/yr1.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 63 sellers

Flapen Score

White Paint against its category

The dotted line is the DIY & Tools average. Past it, White Paint is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The White Paint market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for White Paint 1.8M times last year and spent an estimated £1.3M. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Mar. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.3M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.8%
Conversion, latest week
5.1%
Market size, estimated
£1.3Ma year
Peak month
February4.4× the quietest month
Top search term
white paint277K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £13.65.

Listings sell for £13.65 on average, from £7.90 to £20.94. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £13.65 that is £27K to £34K a year per listing.

Average price
£13.65under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.90–£20.94
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£27K–£34K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

76% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 76% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #27 within Painting Supplies, Tools & Wall Treatments. It carries 3,025 reviews at 4.35 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
76%
Prime listings
76%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#27in Painting Supplies, Tools & Wall Treatments
Average rating
4.35 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,025per listing
Listings tracked
21

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top White Paint products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£126K£252K£377K£503K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

63

Est. top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

1%

  • Johnstone's75%
  • Crown11%
  • Dulux9%
  • Paintsmiths2%
  • JOYAONE2%
  • Polar Specialist Coatings1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

White Paint search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

50K30KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Mar · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.4×

Search terms

Top White Paint search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • white paint277K/yr
  • wall paint207K/yr
  • dulux paint209K/yr
  • white paint for walls164K/yr
  • johnstones paint106K/yr
  • emulsion paint for walls118K/yr
  • white emulsion paint103K/yr
  • painting114K/yr
  • white wall paint57K/yr
  • crown paint56K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about White Paint

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

24%of positive reviews mention “Paint Quality”
53%of negative reviews mention “Paint Quality”
0.7%of orders come back
“Terrible paint”
A buyer, on “Paint Quality”53% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common White Paint questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data