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Home repair companies in the Alpena, MI area
How the Alpena, MI area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for home repair companies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 27 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #490 of 526 scored small-town markets
#17 of 18 scored small-town markets based in Michigan
- Listings
- 20
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 20
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $30.3M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,330 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.5M
- 38% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 15.4
- 24% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 28,853
- −0.1% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for home repair companies in the Alpena area is 27 (lower middle), #490 of 526 scored small-town markets and #17 of 18 scored small-town markets based in Michigan. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in the Alpena area comes to about $30.3M a year: $2,330 per household, 23% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.5M per company, 38% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
The Alpena area has 20 home repair companies on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 4% across the U.S. That comes to 15.4 for every 10,000 households, 24% above the U.S. rate of 12.4.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in the Alpena area was 20 in 2023. That is one for every 651 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Alpena area declined 0.1%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Alpena area compares
The same measures for Michigan and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the home repair companies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Alpena area | Michigan | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 15.4 | 10.6 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.5M | $2.5M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 651 | 795 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +10.2% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.1% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,330 | $2,711 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $53,950 | $72,875 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 27 | 55 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 20
- Employees, 2023
- 141
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $6.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 200 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in the Alpena area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Alpena area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 28,853−0.1% since 2020
- Households
- 13,019
- Median age
- 47.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 572 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 50
- Median household income
- $53,950+24.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $74,418
- Median home value
- $153,900
- Jobs located here
- 11,363
- Daytime population
- 29,194Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Michigan market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Michigan for home repair companies, numbered among those based in Michigan (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Alpena area marked.
Top small-town markets in Michigan
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sturgis, MI | 67 | 18 | 7.6 | $3.3M | +0.1% | #72 of 526 |
| 2Big Rapids, MI | 66 | 17 | 10.2 | $2.3M | +4.7% | #87 of 526 |
| 3Marquette, MI | 65 | 26 | 9.2 | $2.7M | +2.3% | #96 of 526 |
| 4Cadillac, MI | 58 | 21 | 10.7 | $2.3M | +2.0% | #167 of 526 |
| 5Escanaba, MI | 55 | 11 | 6.9 | $3.5M | −0.8% | #194 of 526 |
| 6Houghton, MI | 54 | 16 | 10.4 | $2.4M | +1.8% | #212 of 526 |
| 7Adrian, MI | 51 | 51 | 13.1 | $2M | −1.6% | #267 of 526 |
| 8Hillsdale, MI | 50 | 20 | 11.2 | $2.2M | 0.0% | #271 of 526 |
| 9Coldwater, MI | 50 | 22 | 13.0 | $1.9M | +2.5% | #277 of 526 |
| Marinette, WI-MI | 49 | 31 | 10.5 | $2.3M | +0.3% | #283 of 526 |
| 17Alpena, MI | 27 | 20 | 15.4 | $1.5M | −0.1% | #490 of 526 |
Other business types in the Alpena area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Auto
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Clothing and laundry
Home services
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Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in the Alpena, MI area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 20 home repair companies in the Alpena area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 20 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023.
How much do households in the Alpena, MI area spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $30.3M a year, or $2,330 per household. That is 23% below the U.S. average (an index of 77, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 20 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $1.5M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 13,019 households in the Alpena area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Alpena, MI area compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
The Alpena area has 15.4 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 24% above the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $1.5M, 38% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of home repair companies to household spending, the Alpena area would have about 13, against 20 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 651 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
How fast is the Alpena, MI area growing?
Population estimates put the Alpena area at 28,853 people in 2025, down 0.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 13,019 households. The median household income in the Alpena area is $53,950 a year, 33% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 24.4% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Alpena area scores 27 for home repair companies (lower middle), #490 of 526 scored small-town markets.
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