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Michigan: county data, all 83 of them.

Every Michigan county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Michigan statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
83
Population
10,077,761
Land area
56,533 sq mi
Establishments
227,180
Combined county GDP
$702.47 bn
SBA approvals recorded
18,052

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the Michigan legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Michigan, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write Michigan zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 83 Michigan county-equivalents.

Michigan counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Alcona County10,397$54,993182$263.2 m2675
Alger County8,762$61,286220$331.7 m13915
Allegan County121,456$83,2832,571$6.70 bn256825
Alpena County28,880$53,950822$1.52 bn32572
Antrim County24,127$72,054625$854.6 m46476
Arenac County15,077$58,811355$602.7 m24363
Baraga County8,191$55,327173$374.5 m11898
Barry County63,409$77,500965$2.35 bn82553
Bay County103,008$61,7632,044$4.72 bn151442
Benzie County18,310$74,834474$740.7 m39320
Berrien County153,288$65,4253,561$9.72 bn200568
Branch County45,300$63,724833$1.94 bn44506
Calhoun County133,778$63,1772,482$9.11 bn168706
Cass County51,520$70,443777$1.90 bn52490
Charlevoix County26,108$76,531891$1.72 bn76416
Cheboygan County25,865$62,875770$911.7 m50715
Chippewa County36,295$62,217778$1.60 bn651,558
Clare County31,218$49,384607$1.55 bn51564
Clinton County79,626$88,2101,406$3.17 bn111566
Crawford County13,369$60,392320$562.6 m41556
Delta County36,813$57,809991$1.64 bn281,171
Dickinson County25,954$65,156806$1.76 bn23761
Eaton County109,130$79,5972,182$7.45 bn143575
Emmet County34,125$78,1121,577$2.56 bn110467
Genesee County403,305$62,2817,733$20.16 bn705637
Gladwin County25,693$55,349433$698.6 m29502
Gogebic County14,319$52,732365$648.6 m111,102
Grand Traverse County96,166$81,6473,549$7.47 bn444464
Gratiot County41,385$63,556725$1.98 bn41568
Hillsdale County45,654$64,242776$2.20 bn29598
Houghton County37,693$58,899891$1.59 bn361,009
Huron County31,113$58,870933$2.16 bn23836
Ingham County283,913$65,5266,160$23.57 bn438556
Ionia County66,574$75,611904$2.33 bn68571
Iosco County25,347$50,066623$1.26 bn26549
Iron County11,667$55,940358$419.5 m131,166
Isabella County64,565$55,2371,423$3.27 bn44573
Jackson County160,060$66,0732,991$9.06 bn203702
Kalamazoo County262,375$72,5325,704$20.71 bn421562
Kalkaska County18,239$68,578353$838.6 m28560
Kent County663,150$82,63117,799$60.32 bn1,937847
Keweenaw County2,133$52,58359$76.6 m9540
Lake County12,563$50,805176$288.9 m5567
Lapeer County88,837$77,3061,771$3.26 bn128643
Leelanau County22,734$99,422796$1.13 bn91347
Lenawee County98,415$70,5181,808$4.24 bn105750
Livingston County195,833$103,0394,495$10.12 bn384565
Luce County6,271$54,893158$209.8 m6899
Mackinac County10,957$63,909451$692.9 m201,022
Macomb County879,853$77,83719,593$54.18 bn1,764479
Manistee County25,350$63,516574$1.16 bn20542
Marquette County67,112$65,4291,655$3.60 bn531,808
Mason County29,207$64,748738$1.35 bn42495
Mecosta County41,242$60,951727$1.63 bn41555
Menominee County23,247$56,435435$971.2 m211,044
Midland County83,757$77,7051,795$7.78 bn121516
Missaukee County15,207$66,194308$677.7 m34565
Monroe County155,505$77,3352,395$8.14 bn225549
Montcalm County67,816$67,3441,058$2.16 bn102705
Montmorency County9,516$49,756207$309.8 m12547
Muskegon County175,961$65,0243,147$8.39 bn265499
Newaygo County50,792$63,304829$2.08 bn70813
Oakland County1,279,825$97,76039,792$143.14 bn3,131868
Oceana County26,915$62,417468$832.9 m49512
Ogemaw County20,885$54,666567$788.0 m26563
Ontonagon County5,850$54,398165$169.2 m41,311
Osceola County23,227$58,267441$1.11 bn43566
Oscoda County8,425$49,515176$282.8 m13566
Otsego County25,584$68,183846$1.50 bn62515
Ottawa County301,203$90,5026,865$21.04 bn738563
Presque Isle County13,209$59,321317$482.1 m4659
Roscommon County23,737$55,246551$853.7 m46520
Saginaw County188,665$60,6224,092$11.01 bn341800
Sanilac County40,462$58,863848$1.75 bn30963
Schoolcraft County8,128$56,782214$360.1 m51,171
Shiawassee County67,991$67,4041,202$2.38 bn117531
St. Clair County160,221$71,2703,080$7.42 bn230721
St. Joseph County60,969$66,4251,149$2.88 bn72501
Tuscola County52,980$63,811842$1.77 bn40803
Van Buren County75,795$68,1141,327$3.31 bn117607
Washtenaw County369,822$89,1808,322$34.59 bn573706
Wayne County1,772,259$60,53933,699$129.92 bn2,525612
Wexford County34,077$61,085910$1.74 bn54565

The register

Every source behind these 83 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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