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Electrical contractors in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI

The Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area has 194 electrical contractors, or 1.67 per 10,000 residents.

What electrical work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national electrical page. Michigan publishes no business-level licence source for electrical, so this page shows no licensed share; the Michigan page says what it does publish.

The facts

Electrical contractors in this metro
194
Per 10,000 residents
1.67 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
4
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Michigan. No electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
2,880 employed, $62,240 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $29.92.
Independent, franchise, corporate
193 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.02% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% 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. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2111.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about electrical in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood

By record count, electrical is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, behind roofing and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood.

Per resident, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood sits close to the Michigan rate for electrical, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's electrical records is close to the Michigan figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Michigan publishes no business-level licence source for electrical that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for electrical in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 2,880 workers across Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, 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.

No Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood electrical record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.

Almost none of Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood's electrical records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More electrical records first appeared in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood differs from the metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 6 Michigan metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood is 2nd of 6 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in Michigan.

Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood are Chicago-Naperville-Elgin above it and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura below it.

Electrical contractors, A to Z

193 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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