Industries › Professional Services › Cleveland
3,273 mid-size companies operate in the Cleveland metro, out of 51,450 business locations in 6 counties. Sapper picks the ones that match your professional services offer, gets the right person on the phone and puts the meeting on your calendar.
| Sector | Locations | Jobs | 50–499 employees | 500+ employees | Change since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 2,951 | 123,303 | 542 | 20 | −37 |
| Health care | 5,962 | 196,117 | 536 | 31 | +22 |
| Professional services | 5,538 | 58,723 | 201 | 5 | +6 |
| Wholesale trade | 2,876 | 48,564 | 197 | 4 | −54 |
| Construction | 4,200 | 38,483 | 139 | 0 | −7 |
| Finance & insurance | 3,073 | 52,842 | 89 | 20 | −93 |
| Information | 866 | 27,301 | 64 | 3 | ±0 |
Where to start: In Cleveland, the second-deepest mid-size list is health care (536), after manufacturing (542). The fastest-growing of these sectors was health care, +22 locations in a year.
| County | All locations | Finance | Health care | Prof. services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuyahoga, OH | 31,496 | 2,094 | 3,827 | 3,709 |
| Lorain, OH | 5,664 | 303 | 690 | 469 |
| Lake, OH | 5,504 | 253 | 589 | 492 |
| Medina, OH | 4,127 | 207 | 383 | 441 |
| Geauga, OH | 2,816 | 127 | 281 | 336 |
Where the market sits: Cuyahoga County and Lorain County hold 72.2% of the metro’s business locations across 6 counties. Cuyahoga County alone has 2,094 finance and 3,827 health care locations.
The metro has 5,538 professional, scientific and technical services locations. That is the field competing for time with Cleveland’s HR and operations leaders.
What wins: a sector-specific opener. A manufacturing buyer should hear a problem from their own work in the first sentence.
1. We agree on the accounts firstYou approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.
2. We introduce you, then keep goingPhone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.
3. We qualify before we bookNeed, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.
4. You walk into a warm conversationWith the account history and a confirmed time.
For a professional services firm, we build the list around the services you sell, the sectors you know and the size of company you serve best. In Cleveland, a first pass could start with the 542 mid-size manufacturing locations and the 536 in health care. How appointment setting works →
The 6-county Cleveland metro has 51,450 business locations. 3,273 have 50–499 employees and 137 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
The most mid-size locations are in manufacturing (542), followed by health care (536).
Titles to test first include human resources managers. The metro has 1,520 of them, plus 220 training and development managers. Which of them fit depends on your offer. You see and approve the Cleveland list before the first call.
Nearby markets: Professional Services in Detroit (90 mi), Professional Services in Pittsburgh (115 mi) and Professional Services in Columbus (126 mi).
If your buyers are Cleveland contractors or home-service companies, Abstrakt’s Cleveland page covers that market.
