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Electricians in the Albert Lea, MN area
How the Albert Lea, MN area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for electricians: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 22 out of 100: Low
Ranked #282 of 295 scored small-town markets
#14 of 14 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota
- Listings
- 10
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 12
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $33.3M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,593 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.3M
- 72% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.8
- 3.1 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 30,440
- −1.5% since 2020
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What this means
For electricians, the Albert Lea area has a Groundwork market score of 22 (low): #282 of 295 scored small-town markets and #14 of 14 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
At $2,593 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in the Albert Lea area spend about $33.3M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance. That is about $3.3M of household spending for each company on map listings, 72% below the U.S. figure of $12M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only electricians.
The Albert Lea area has 10 electricians on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 1% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 7.8, 3.1 times the U.S. rate of 2.5.
In 2023, official counts showed 12 businesses with payroll in the Albert Lea area classed as electrical contractors. That is one for every 1,071 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in the Albert Lea area from 2020 to 2025 at −1.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Albert Lea area compares
The same measures for Minnesota and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the electricians counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Albert Lea area | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.8 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
| Spending per listing | $3.3M | $9.8M | $12M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,071 | 1,505 | 1,550 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +0.5% | +9.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.5% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,593 | $2,990 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $71,023 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 22 | 45 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 12
- Employees, 2023
- 117
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $7.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 100 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as electrical contractors in the Albert Lea area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Albert Lea area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 30,440−1.5% since 2020
- Households
- 12,846
- Median age
- 45.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 707 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 43
- Median household income
- $71,023+32.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,926
- Median home value
- $171,100
- Jobs located here
- 11,051
- Daytime population
- 27,708Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Minnesota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Faribault-Northfield, MN | 61 | 7 | 3.0 | $9.4M | +4.2% | #78 of 295 |
| 2Winona, MN | 54 | 5 | 2.5 | $10.6M | +1.8% | #124 of 295 |
| 3Alexandria, MN | 54 | 6 | 3.4 | $8M | +2.6% | #127 of 295 |
| 4Austin, MN | 53 | 6 | 3.8 | $7M | +2.3% | #135 of 295 |
| 5Owatonna, MN | 45 | 9 | 5.9 | $4.6M | +0.2% | #188 of 295 |
| 6Red Wing, MN | 44 | 10 | 5.1 | $5.4M | +1.3% | #192 of 295 |
| 7Brainerd, MN | 40 | 26 | 6.2 | $4.3M | +4.3% | #209 of 295 |
| 8Detroit Lakes, MN | 39 | 6 | 4.2 | $6.4M | +0.9% | #212 of 295 |
| 9Willmar, MN | 39 | 8 | 4.5 | $5.9M | +2.3% | #214 of 295 |
| 10Grand Rapids, MN | 33 | 9 | 4.9 | $5.3M | +0.9% | #256 of 295 |
| 14Albert Lea, MN | 22 | 10 | 7.8 | $3.3M | −1.5% | #282 of 295 |
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Questions
How many electricians are in the Albert Lea, MN area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 10 electricians in the Albert Lea area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count electricians. Official counts show 12 businesses with payroll classed as electrical contractors in 2023.
How much do households in the Albert Lea, MN area spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $33.3M a year, or $2,593 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 10 electricians on map listings, it comes to $3.3M per company. That spending covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, which electricians share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 12,846 households in the Albert Lea area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Albert Lea, MN area compare with the U.S. for electricians?
The Albert Lea area has 7.8 electricians per 10,000 households, 3.1 times the U.S. rate of 2.5. Spending per company is $3.3M, 72% below the U.S. figure of $12M. At the U.S. ratio of electricians to household spending, the Albert Lea area would have about 3, against 10 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,071 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S.
How fast is the Albert Lea, MN area growing?
Population estimates put the Albert Lea area at 30,440 people in 2025, down 1.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 12,846 households. Median household income in the Albert Lea area is $71,023, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 32.4%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Albert Lea area scores 22 for electricians (low), #282 of 295 scored small-town markets.
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