Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI
The Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area has 4,219 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 36.28 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 2,084 records and 49.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 16.
Against Michigan’s own rate per resident for each trade, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood carries more pest control contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Michigan metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's largest trades: it is 4th of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 5th of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the densest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Michigan.
The facts for Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 4,219
- Per 10,000 residents
- 36.28 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 81
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 5
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 4,085 independent, 50 franchise brand, 62 corporate owned, 22 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.61% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.11% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,162,950, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood
Other home service is Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's largest trade, and two of every five records here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and cleaning. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood. The smallest of them here is pool.
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood 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, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood sits close to the Michigan rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Pest control takes a larger share of Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood than of Michigan, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Even Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's thinnest trade against Michigan, painting, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood 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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 2,880 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 194 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.
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in flooring and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.
Within Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, roofing and electrical are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood'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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood 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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood 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 electrical lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Wyoming, Kentwood and Grandville. Each of them carries one trade.
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, 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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood on this site are Fresno above it and Buffalo-Cheektowaga below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's neighbours are Kalamazoo-Portage and Scranton--Wilkes-Barre. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 247 | 2.12 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 194 | 1.67 | Not published | $29.92 |
| Flooring | 221 | 1.90 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 332 | 2.85 | Not published | $28.94 |
| Landscaping | 473 | 4.07 | Not published | |
| Painting | 152 | 1.31 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 87 | 0.75 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 216 | 1.86 | Not published | $38.67 |
| Pool | 16 | 0.14 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 197 | 1.69 | Not published | $23.86 |
| Other home service | 2,084 | 17.92 | 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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | other home service | 132 |
| Kentwood | other home service | 98 |
| Grandville | other home service | 59 |
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.