Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area has 15,654 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 36.05 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 7,968 records and 50.9% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 107.
Against Michigan’s own rate per resident for each trade, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn carries more pool, plumbing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Michigan metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's largest trades: it is 2nd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 4th of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 3rd of 6 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Michigan.
The facts for Detroit-Warren-Dearborn
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 15,654
- Per 10,000 residents
- 36.05 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 196
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 49
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 15,234 independent, 185 franchise brand, 171 corporate owned, 64 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.64% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.43% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 4,342,304, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Detroit-Warren-Dearborn
Other home service is Detroit-Warren-Dearborn'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, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. The smallest of them here is pool.
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn clears the record floor a trade page has to meet, so each has a page of its own. That is a statement about how thick this metro's thinnest trade is.
Per resident, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn sits close to the Michigan rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pool takes a larger share of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn than of Michigan, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's thinnest trade against Michigan, electrical, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Detroit-Warren-Dearborn 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, roofing and HVAC in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. Of those, plumbing pays the most and HVAC the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 11,210 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 620 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.
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pest control holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Other home service is the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Detroit-Warren-Dearborn records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Detroit-Warren-Dearborn that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Detroit, Sterling Heights, Warren, Rochester Hills and Southfield, and 12 more. Detroit carries the most trades of them.
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn on this site are San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont above it and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's neighbours are Peoria and Harrisburg-Carlisle. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 820 | 1.89 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 620 | 1.43 | Not published | $39.42 |
| Flooring | 887 | 2.04 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 976 | 2.25 | Not published | $30.37 |
| Landscaping | 1,796 | 4.14 | Not published | |
| Painting | 675 | 1.55 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 223 | 0.51 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 962 | 2.22 | Not published | $41.53 |
| Pool | 107 | 0.25 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 620 | 1.43 | Not published | $30.48 |
| Other home service | 7,968 | 18.35 | 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.
All 11 trades here clear the 8-record floor, so no trade URL of this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Cities inside Detroit-Warren-Dearborn with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Detroit | landscaping, plumbing | 237 |
| Sterling Heights | other home service | 235 |
| Warren | other home service | 229 |
| Rochester Hills | other home service | 169 |
| Southfield | other home service | 167 |
| St. Clair Shores | other home service | 96 |
| Westland | other home service | 93 |
| Wixom | other home service | 88 |
| Birmingham | other home service | 81 |
| Taylor | other home service | 80 |
| Auburn Hills | other home service | 72 |
| Romulus | other home service | 69 |
| Madison Heights | other home service | 67 |
| Dearborn Heights | other home service | 62 |
| Livonia | HVAC | 60 |
| Oak Park | other home service | 53 |
| Ferndale | other home service | 50 |
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.