Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Ann Arbor, MI
The Ann Arbor, MI metro area has 1,271 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.77 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 673 records and 53.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 4.
Against Michigan’s own rate per resident for each trade, Ann Arbor carries more painting contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, plumbing, electrical contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Michigan metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Ann Arbor's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is 3rd of 6 for cleaning, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Michigan.
The facts for Ann Arbor
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,271
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.77 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 21
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 2
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,216 independent, 18 franchise brand, 31 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.55% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.18% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 365,536, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Ann Arbor
Other home service is Ann Arbor's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Ann Arbor's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, cleaning and HVAC. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Ann Arbor. The smallest of them here is pool.
Ann Arbor's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Ann Arbor trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.
Per resident, Ann Arbor sits close to the Michigan rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Painting takes a larger share of Ann Arbor than of Michigan, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Ann Arbor than across Michigan, the mirror of the lean above.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and cleaning are Ann Arbor's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Ann Arbor trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Ann Arbor, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Ann Arbor. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Ann Arbor, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Ann Arbor's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 610 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 43 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other. HVAC, plumbing and roofing follow it.
Of the Ann Arbor records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in pest control; the most franchised trade here is pest control.
Within Ann Arbor, plumbing and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Ann Arbor's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Cleaning is the Ann Arbor trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Ann Arbor records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pest control added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside this metro area, the city of Ann Arbor itself differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Ann Arbor, MI sits inside Michigan alone, so the labour market this page counts and the licensing regime that governs it are the same geography.
Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Ann Arbor on this site are Huntington-Ashland above it and Peoria below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Ann Arbor's neighbours are Durham-Chapel Hill and Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Ann Arbor
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 75 | 2.05 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 43 | 1.18 | Not published | $39.16 |
| Flooring | 55 | 1.50 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 70 | 1.91 | Not published | $36.06 |
| Landscaping | 171 | 4.68 | Not published | |
| Painting | 67 | 1.83 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 23 | 0.63 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 47 | 1.29 | Not published | $37.60 |
| Pool | 4 | 0.11 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 43 | 1.18 | Not published | $29.68 |
| Other home service | 673 | 18.41 | Not published |
Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Roofers. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026.
One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Cities inside Ann Arbor with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Ann Arbor | other home service | 177 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Michigan carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.