Home Business in Michigan (2026)

Clinton Township lets residents run a home occupation in any residential district, but Section 1118.02(m) confines it…

Detroit lets home occupations run without a permit if they stay incidental to the dwelling, but zoning caps their size…

The City of Flint permits home occupations in single-family zoning districts, but only residents may work in the…

Home-based business zoning is set by your city or township, not Genesee County. Michigan's Zoning Enabling Act lets…

Grand Rapids requires a City Clerk business license for every home occupation, sorting them into Class A, B, or C by…

Lansing allows home occupations as an accessory use in single-family homes and duplexes only, capped at 20% of floor…

Livonia allows home occupations by right in the N1, N2, RUF, NM1, NM2, and NM3 Districts under Zoning Ordinance Section…

Macomb County does not zone home-based businesses; each city and township does. Local ordinances typically allow a home…

Sterling Heights lets residents run a home occupation as a zoning accessory use, but only if a permanent resident runs…

Troy zoning treats a home occupation as an accessory use permitted by right in residential districts, but only inside…

Warren allows a home occupation only when it's run by a family member living on-site, with no employees outside the…

Westland caps home occupations at 25 percent of a dwelling's floor area, bars use of accessory buildings, and requires…

Wyoming, Michigan lets residents run a business from their own home only if it stays clearly secondary to living there…

Dearborn treats a home occupation as a permitted accessory residential use, no zoning permit required, as long as it…

Clinton Township bans signage for home businesses outright. Section 1118.02(m)(6) states plainly that no sign…

Flint's zoning code bars any sign or other advertising for a home occupation anywhere on the premises: one of twelve…

Lansing bans any sign advertising a home occupation. Section 1250.02.02(e) of the Zoning Code says flatly, 'No signs…

Livonia bars home businesses from advertising or displaying signage except as permitted by the residential sign…

Macomb County communities generally prohibit signs and any outward advertising of a home occupation. Macomb Township is…

Running a home business in a Sterling Heights one-family district comes with a hard sign ban: Zoning Ordinance Section…

Dearborn's Zoning Ordinance lets a home-based business operate as a permitted accessory use only if it results in no…

Detroit bars any exterior sign for a home-based business: the zoning code requires zero visible evidence of a home…

Troy bans any sign advertising a home occupation. Section 7.10.H allows no exceptions: a home-based business cannot…

Sign rules for a home business are set by your city or township, not Genesee County. Michigan's Zoning Enabling Act…

Home occupations in Grand Rapids fall back on the residential district's Nameplate Sign: one per dwelling, 8 square…

A home occupation in Warren may display only one sign: a single non-illuminated name plate at the building entrance…

A home occupation in Wyoming, Michigan may display exactly one sign, a non-illuminated nameplate capped at two square…

Flint's home occupation rules for residential zones flatly bar walk-in customer trade, § 50-21(d)(3) allows no client…

Sterling Heights zoning bars home occupations from generating any customer traffic or parking demand beyond what the…

Clinton Township limits how much activity a home business can generate. Section 1118.02(m)(7) requires that a home…

Detroit caps client and visitor traffic to a home occupation at levels matching normal neighborhood activity: no…

Grand Rapids caps Class B home occupations at two adult customers, clients, students, or patients on the premises at…

Lansing caps home-occupation client and delivery traffic at five pickups, deliveries, or visits a day, and bars any of…

Livonia caps client traffic at home businesses under Zoning Ordinance Section 6.28(7): clients, patrons, and other…

Troy bars a home occupation from generating any vehicular traffic beyond what a single-family home normally produces…

Westland caps any home-based business at ten business-related vehicle trips a day and no more than two visitors on-site…

A home-based business in Wyoming, Michigan cannot bring more vehicle or foot traffic to a residential street than an…

Michigan's Cottage Food Law lets you sell qualifying non-hazardous homemade foods without a license or inspection as…

Under the Michigan Cottage Food Law you can make and sell certain non-hazardous foods from your home kitchen without a…

Michigan's Cottage Food Law lets you sell certain homemade non-hazardous foods without a license. Annual gross sales…

Michigan's Cottage Food Law lets residents make and sell certain non-hazardous foods from their home kitchen without a…

Oakland County home bakers, jam makers, and other cottage food operators are governed by Michigan's Cottage Food Law…

Michigan has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. The word "microenterprise" returns zero results in a…

Michigan's Child Care Organizations Act preempts local zoning that would exclude licensed family or group child care…

Livonia permits a family child care home only as a waiver use in the N1, N2, and RUF residential districts under Zoning…

Clinton Township allows a group daycare home in any residential district, but it must sit at least 1,500 feet from…

Dearborn treats a family day care home caring for up to six children as a permitted principal use in R-A and R-B…

A home daycare in Genesee County must be licensed by the State of Michigan (child care licensing, formerly LARA, now…

In-home childcare is licensed by the State of Michigan (LARA/MiLEAP), not Kent County. A family child care home cares…

In-home child care in Macomb County is licensed by the State of Michigan (LARA / MiLEAP), not the county. A family…

Warren treats a state-licensed family child care home as a permitted use, no special approval needed, in One Family…

Group day care homes in Westland need a Planning Department site plan, a fenced 500-square-foot play area, and must cap…

Wyoming, Michigan permits child care for up to six children as an accessory residential use in the R-1 district by…

State-licensed family day care and similar homes serving six or fewer people are a permitted residential use in every…

Troy treats a licensed family day care home as an ordinary residential use. Section 6.09.A of the Zoning Ordinance…

Detroit's zoning code lists 'family day care home' as a by-right use in every residential district from R1 through R6…

State-licensed family and group child care homes in Grand Rapids are fully exempt from the City's Home Occupation…

Lansing allows a family day-care home for up to seven children as a permitted use in most residential districts, but…

Michigan law (MCL 125.3206) requires every Oakland County township and county zoning ordinance to treat a…