Home-service contractors in Kalamazoo-Portage, MI

Other home service is Kalamazoo-Portage'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, Kalamazoo-Portage's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service and landscaping alone reach half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Kalamazoo-Portage. The smallest of them here is pool.

Kalamazoo-Portage's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

One Kalamazoo-Portage 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, Kalamazoo-Portage sits close to the Michigan rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Against Michigan's own mix, Kalamazoo-Portage is heaviest in pest control: that trade takes a far larger share of this metro than of the state.

Plumbing is thinner in Kalamazoo-Portage 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 HVAC are Kalamazoo-Portage's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.

No Kalamazoo-Portage 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 Kalamazoo-Portage, 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 Kalamazoo-Portage. 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 Kalamazoo-Portage, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Plumbing carries Kalamazoo-Portage's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 870 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 38 plumbing 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. Electrical, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Kalamazoo-Portage'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 Kalamazoo-Portage, electrical and painting are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Kalamazoo-Portage's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pool holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

HVAC is the Kalamazoo-Portage 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 Kalamazoo-Portage 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.

No city inside Kalamazoo-Portage differs from the metro enough to carry pages of its own, so every record here is answered on the trade pages above.

Kalamazoo-Portage, 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 Kalamazoo-Portage on this site are Fargo above it and Santa Cruz-Watsonville below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Kalamazoo-Portage's neighbours are Salem and Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.