Home security system cost in Detroit: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Detroit owners paid a median $400 for a home security system: $29 below the U.S. median, tied for 12th-highest of 14 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Detroit owners paid
$400
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
Margin of error ±$170: at 90% confidence the Detroit median lies between $230 and $570.
How Detroit compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $429
- Rank, highest first
- Tied at 12 of 14
Detroit: $400. The big-metro medians run from $334 to $557.
1 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 14.
- Houston$557
- Boston$500
- Dallas$500
- Los Angeles$500
- Miami$500
- San Francisco$500
- Seattle$500
- Philadelphia$464
- Riverside$464
- Atlanta$450
- Washington DC$429
- Detroit$400
- Phoenix$400
- Chicago$334
No published figure: New York City.
What it covers
Adding or replacing a home security system: the equipment and its installation.
The Census category is “Security system” within “Interior Additions and Replacements”: what Detroit-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
Ask every contractor to price the same scope, in writing. Are equipment, installation and any ongoing service separately identified?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.