Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Flint, MI
The Flint, MI metro area has 1,376 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.27 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 692 records and 50.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 17.
Against Michigan’s own rate per resident for each trade, Flint carries more pool, cleaning, pest control contractors than the state average. It carries fewer plumbing, flooring, painting contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Michigan metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Flint's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is 3rd of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for cleaning. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Michigan.
The facts for Flint
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,376
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.27 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 27
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 4
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,339 independent, 14 franchise brand, 17 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.57% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.02% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 401,522, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Flint
Other home service is Flint'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, Flint'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 Flint. The smallest of them here is pool.
Flint's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Flint 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, Flint sits close to the Michigan rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Cleaning takes a larger share of Flint than of Michigan, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Plumbing is thinner in Flint 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 Flint's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Flint 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 Flint, 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 Flint. 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 Flint, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Flint's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 790 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 61 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. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.
Flint'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 Flint, cleaning and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Flint'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.
Painting is the Flint 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 Flint 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 landscaping lost the largest share to closed flags.
Inside this metro area, the city of Flint itself differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Flint, 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 Flint on this site are Naples-Marco Island above it and Anchorage below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Flint's neighbours are Eugene-Springfield and Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Flint
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 92 | 2.29 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 61 | 1.52 | Not published | $37.63 |
| Flooring | 62 | 1.54 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 86 | 2.14 | Not published | $28.79 |
| Landscaping | 173 | 4.31 | Not published | |
| Painting | 50 | 1.25 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 28 | 0.70 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 49 | 1.22 | Not published | $38.71 |
| Pool | 17 | 0.42 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 66 | 1.64 | Not published | $34.02 |
| Other home service | 692 | 17.23 | 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 Flint with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Flint | other home service | 79 |
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.