Macomb County

Macomb County is a governmental entity in southeast Michigan, established in 1818, and Michigan's third most populated county. It provides public services and governance to over 865,000 residents across 27 local units of government, within a land area of 483.7 square miles. The county employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people and operates through departments including Health, Public Works, the Sheriff's Office, Courts, and Community Mental Health, with work spanning public works and infrastructure, public health, community mental health, law enforcement and courts, and parks and recreation management.

County programmes cover services for residents from birth through retirement. Its parks and recreation system comprises over 17,000 acres of parks and recreational spaces and 155 miles of non-motorized trails along the Clinton River and the Lake St. Clair coastline, which runs for 32 miles in the county. The county is also home to more than 18,000 businesses, with industry clusters in advanced manufacturing, automotive, defense, health care, retail, agriculture, and food processing.

Financially, the county holds credit ratings of AA+ from Standard & Poor's and Aa1 from Moody's Investor Services, and has recorded five consecutive years of balanced budgets, attributed to a strategic reorganisation and prudent financial management. The OneMacomb initiative sets out the county's commitment to diversity and inclusion across the community and the workforce, alongside a stated mission value of transparent governance.