Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Lansing-East Lansing, MI
The Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro area has 1,627 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 34.38 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 868 records and 53.3% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 11.
No trade in Lansing-East Lansing runs meaningfully ahead of Michigan’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer painting, HVAC, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 6 Michigan metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Lansing-East Lansing's largest trades: it is 3rd of 6 for other home service, around the middle; it is 2nd of 6 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is the thinnest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Michigan.
The facts for Lansing-East Lansing
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,627
- Per 10,000 residents
- 34.38 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 21
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 4
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,574 independent, 22 franchise brand, 27 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.55% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.68% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 473,177, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Lansing-East Lansing
Other home service is Lansing-East Lansing's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Lansing-East Lansing's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and flooring. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Lansing-East Lansing. The smallest of them here is pool.
Lansing-East Lansing's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Lansing-East Lansing 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, Lansing-East Lansing sits close to the Michigan rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Lansing-East Lansing against Michigan. Landscaping leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Painting is thinner in Lansing-East Lansing 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 Lansing-East Lansing's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Lansing-East Lansing 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 Lansing-East Lansing, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Lansing-East Lansing. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Lansing-East Lansing, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Lansing-East Lansing's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,140 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 77 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.
Lansing-East Lansing'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 Lansing-East Lansing, electrical and landscaping are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Lansing-East Lansing's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. HVAC holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Plumbing is the Lansing-East Lansing 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 Lansing-East Lansing 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 roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.
One city inside Lansing-East Lansing, Lansing, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.
Lansing-East Lansing, 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 Lansing-East Lansing on this site are Visalia above it and Wilmington below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Lansing-East Lansing's neighbours are Boise City and Eugene-Springfield. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Lansing-East Lansing
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 79 | 1.67 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 77 | 1.63 | Not published | $38.69 |
| Flooring | 82 | 1.73 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 88 | 1.86 | Not published | $29.06 |
| Landscaping | 208 | 4.40 | Not published | |
| Painting | 44 | 0.93 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 26 | 0.55 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 78 | 1.65 | Not published | $37.59 |
| Pool | 11 | 0.23 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 66 | 1.39 | Not published | $24.25 |
| Other home service | 868 | 18.34 | 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 Lansing-East Lansing with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Lansing | other home service | 175 |
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.