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Electricians in the Rice Lake, WI area
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for electricians in the Rice Lake, WI area, set against other small-town markets and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 37 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #228 of 295 scored small-town markets
#11 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Wisconsin
- Listings
- 7
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 18
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $50.9M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,552 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.3M
- 39% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.5
- 40% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 46,484
- −0.5% since 2020
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What this means
For electricians, the Rice Lake area has a Groundwork market score of 37 (lower middle): #228 of 295 scored small-town markets and #11 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Wisconsin. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Households in the Rice Lake area spend about $50.9M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance, or $2,552 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. That is about $7.3M of household spending for each company on map listings, 39% below the U.S. figure of $12M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only electricians.
There are 7 electricians on map listings in the Rice Lake area as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 1% across the U.S. That is 3.5 per 10,000 households, 40% above the U.S. rate of 2.5.
Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as electrical contractors in the Rice Lake area in 2023. That is one for every 1,109 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $3.3M have gone to businesses classed as electrical contractors in the Rice Lake area. Population estimates put the population change in the Rice Lake area from 2020 to 2025 at −0.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Rice Lake area compares
The same measures for Wisconsin 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 | Rice Lake area | Wisconsin | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.5 | 2.7 | 2.5 |
| Spending per listing | $7.3M | $10.1M | $12M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,109 | 1,699 | 1,550 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.7% | +9.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.5% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,552 | $2,759 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $65,933 | $77,485 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 37 | 41 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18
- Employees, 2023
- 138
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $6.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 70 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $3.3M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as electrical contractors in the Rice Lake 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 Rice Lake area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 46,484−0.5% since 2020
- Households
- 19,955
- Median age
- 45.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 863 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 54
- Median household income
- $65,933
- Average household income
- $87,099
- Median home value
- $216,600
- Jobs located here
- 20,886
- Daytime population
- 44,130Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Wisconsin
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Stevens Point-Plover, WI | 79 | 7 | 2.4 | $11.4M | +2.2% | #3 of 295 |
| 2Whitewater-Elkhorn, WI | 68 | 11 | 2.6 | $11.2M | +0.8% | #35 of 295 |
| 3Shawano, WI | 66 | 5 | 2.7 | $9.4M | +1.4% | #50 of 295 |
| 4Marinette, WI-MI | 61 | 6 | 2.0 | $12M | +0.3% | #74 of 295 |
| 5Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI | 61 | 11 | 3.2 | $8.7M | +0.3% | #81 of 295 |
| 6Manitowoc, WI | 55 | 11 | 3.1 | $8.3M | +0.4% | #122 of 295 |
| 7Beaver Dam, WI | 51 | 12 | 3.3 | $7.9M | −0.3% | #151 of 295 |
| 8Sparta, WI | 48 | 6 | 3.3 | $7.8M | +0.6% | #166 of 295 |
| 9Baraboo, WI | 47 | 11 | 3.9 | $6.9M | +1.3% | #172 of 295 |
| 10Platteville, WI | 38 | 10 | 5.0 | $5.1M | +0.9% | #224 of 295 |
| 11Rice Lake, WI | 37 | 7 | 3.5 | $7.3M | −0.5% | #228 of 295 |
Other business types in the Rice Lake area
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Questions
How many electricians are in the Rice Lake, WI area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 7 electricians in the Rice Lake area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count electricians. Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as electrical contractors in 2023.
How much do households in the Rice Lake, WI area spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $50.9M a year, or $2,552 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 7 electricians on map listings, it comes to $7.3M 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 19,955 households in the Rice Lake area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Rice Lake, WI area compare with the U.S. for electricians?
The Rice Lake area has 3.5 electricians per 10,000 households, 40% above the U.S. rate of 2.5. Spending per company is $7.3M, 39% below the U.S. figure of $12M. At the U.S. ratio of electricians to household spending, the Rice Lake area would have about 4, against 7 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,109 households, against one for every 1,550 across the U.S.
How fast is the Rice Lake, WI area growing?
Population estimates put the Rice Lake area at 46,484 people in 2025, down 0.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 19,955 households. Median household income in the Rice Lake area is $65,933, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 Rice Lake area scores 37 for electricians (lower middle), #228 of 295 scored small-town markets.
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