Metro fact page
Plumbing contractors in Kalamazoo-Portage, MI
The Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area has 38 plumbing contractors, or 1.45 per 10,000 residents.
What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. Michigan publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the Michigan page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Plumbing contractors in this metro
- 38
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.45 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 1
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Michigan. No plumbing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 870 employed, $90,730 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $43.62. SOC 47-2152 pools plumbers with pipefitters and steamfitters, so this employment figure and this wage cover all three occupations together and are not a plumbing-only measure.
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 38 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 262,215, 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 47-2152.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about plumbing in Kalamazoo-Portage
By record count, plumbing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Kalamazoo-Portage, behind flooring and ahead of pest control. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Kalamazoo-Portage.
Per resident, Kalamazoo-Portage carries fewer plumbing records than Michigan as a whole.
The independent share of Kalamazoo-Portage's plumbing 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 plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Kalamazoo-Portage is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no plumbing 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 plumbing in Kalamazoo-Portage, 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 870 workers across Kalamazoo-Portage, 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.
No Kalamazoo-Portage plumbing 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.
No Kalamazoo-Portage plumbing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
More plumbing records first appeared in Kalamazoo-Portage 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 Kalamazoo-Portage differs from the metro enough on plumbing 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 plumbing page for, Kalamazoo-Portage is 4th of 6 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for rather than every metro area in Michigan.
Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Kalamazoo-Portage are Springfield above it and Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville below it.
Plumbing contractors, A to Z
38 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- Alliance PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Aqua Plumbing ServicesPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Aqua Plumbing ServicesKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- B Gage Plumbing & MechanicalVicksburg, MIListed in open place data
- Brian the HandymanKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- C.L. Mahoney CoKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Centerline PlumbingRichland, MIListed in open place data
- Contemporary CarpentryVicksburg, MIListed in open place data
- Culligan Water Conditioning of Kalamazoo, MIKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- D. Wood PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Dependable PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Dhe Plumbing & MechanicalKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Disaster RestorationPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Discount Drain CleaningKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Drain MonkeysPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Elite PlumbingRichland, MIListed in open place data
- Elite PlumbingRichland, MIListed in open place data
- Fluid Process EquipmentKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Hageman Water ConditioningPortage, MIListed in open place data
- Helmus PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Helping Hands Sewer Drain And PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Huizenga ConstructionKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- J H ConstructionSchoolcraft, MIListed in open place data
- MHPSKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Mowen EnterprisesScotts, MIListed in open place data
- Mr Discount PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Orlando PlumbingGalesburg, MIListed in open place data
- Paul Chiba PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Petro PlumbingRichland, MIListed in open place data
- Petro Plumbing & MechanicalRichland, MIListed in open place data
- Plumbers & Pipefitters 357Schoolcraft, MIListed in open place data
- Portage PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Portage PlumbingSchoolcraft, MIListed in open place data
- Reynolds Plumbing ServiceKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Sanford's PlumbingAugusta, MIListed in open place data
- Starr KitchensKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Total PlumbingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
- Whitney Plumbing Electric HeatingKalamazoo, MIListed in open place data
Other trades in Kalamazoo-Portage
- Cleaning 53
- Electrical 54
- Flooring 40
- HVAC 70
- Landscaping 104
- Painting 47
- Pest control 27
- Roofing 51
- Other home service 467
- All trades in Kalamazoo-Portage
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Kalamazoo-Portage, so it is answered on the overview above instead.