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Roofing contractors in Kalamazoo-Portage, MI

The Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area has 51 roofing contractors, or 1.94 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Roofing contractors in this metro
51
Per 10,000 residents
1.94 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
2
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Michigan. No roofing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
110 employed, $59,280 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $28.50.
Independent, franchise, corporate
49 independent, 0 franchise brand, 2 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 47-2181.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about roofing in Kalamazoo-Portage

By record count, roofing is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Kalamazoo-Portage, behind cleaning 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 Kalamazoo-Portage.

Per resident, Kalamazoo-Portage carries more roofing records than Michigan as a whole.

The independent share of Kalamazoo-Portage's roofing 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 roofing 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 roofing 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 roofing 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 110 workers across Kalamazoo-Portage, and this site publishes 51 roofing 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.

Of the Kalamazoo-Portage roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

No Kalamazoo-Portage roofing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More roofing 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 roofing 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 roofing page for, Kalamazoo-Portage carries the most records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for rather than every metro area in Michigan.

Ordered by roofing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, the hubs either side of Kalamazoo-Portage are Madison above it and Youngstown-Warren below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Kalamazoo-Portage

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Kalamazoo-Portage, so it is answered on the overview above instead.