The following observations can be seen when analyzing the distribution of the housing stock by number of rooms in Kent county and the state of Michigan:

1. The number of homes with less than 3 rooms for both Kent county and the state of Michigan is approximately 10% of the total housing stock.
2. 13.8% of the total housing stock of Kent county has 4 rooms in the house as compared to 14.4% statewide.
3. 16.5% of the total housing stock of Kent county has 5 rooms in the house as compared to 21% in the state of Michigan.
4. When it comes to houses with 6 rooms - 17.8% of all the houses in Kent county fall into this category. For the state of Michigan this number is 20.1%.
5. Likewise in the case of homes with 7 rooms - in Kent county theses homes are 14.4% of the total as compared to 13.5% statewide.
6. The number of home with 8 rooms in Kent county are 10.9% of the total as compared to 9.3% statewide.
7. And finally, homes with more than 9 rooms are 16.5% of all homes in Kent county as compared to only 11.6% statewide.

The count of rooms includes the number of bathrooms and kitchen in the house. Thus we can see the 62.7% of the total housing stock of Kent county is composed of homes that have been 4 to 7 rooms - basically 1 bedroom to 3 bedroom dwellings. Additionally more than 75% of the housing stock belongs to dwellings that have more than 5 rooms indicating single or multi-family homes. This bodes well for contractors like James and Carmine - the larger the presence of single family homes, the higher the need for roof repairing and replacement services.

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