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Home repair companies in Mercer County, IL
How Mercer County, IL compares with other counties and the U.S. for home repair companies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $17.6M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,680 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.9M
- 2.4 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.6
- 63% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 15,229
- −2.6% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Mercer County spend about $17.6M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance, or $2,680 per household, 11% below the U.S. average. Spread across 3 home repair companies, that is $5.9M per company, 2.4 times the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
Mercer County has 3 home repair companies on map listings as of September 2026. That is 4.6 per 10,000 households, 63% below the U.S. rate of 12.4.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Mercer County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Mercer County declined 2.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 home repair companies on map listings, Mercer County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Mercer County compares
The same measures for Illinois and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the home repair companies 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 | Mercer County | Illinois | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.6 | 13.0 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $5.9M | $2.2M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 647 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.3% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.6% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,680 | $2,919 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $74,182 | $83,390 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 47 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 30 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The 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 plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Mercer County, 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 Mercer County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 15,229−2.6% since 2020
- Households
- 6,565
- Median age
- 43.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 84%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 561 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 28
- Median household income
- $74,182+24.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $92,846
- Median home value
- $146,700
- Jobs located here
- 3,052
- Daytime population
- 11,354Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Illinois
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Piatt County, IL | 71 | 6 | 8.7 | $3.4M | +0.6% | #181 of 2,057 |
| 2Ogle County, IL | 70 | 17 | 8.2 | $3.4M | −0.7% | #210 of 2,057 |
| 3Cook County, IL | 64 | 2,065 | 9.8 | $3M | −1.3% | #399 of 2,057 |
| 4Bureau County, IL | 63 | 10 | 7.1 | $3.6M | −2.1% | #434 of 2,057 |
| 5Boone County, IL | 62 | 21 | 10.8 | $2.7M | +0.4% | #496 of 2,057 |
| 6Rock Island County, IL | 57 | 58 | 9.4 | $2.7M | −1.7% | #696 of 2,057 |
| 7St. Clair County, IL | 57 | 105 | 10.4 | $2.6M | −2.5% | #697 of 2,057 |
| 8Monroe County, IL | 57 | 17 | 12.3 | $2.6M | −0.3% | #698 of 2,057 |
| 9Franklin County, IL | 55 | 11 | 6.8 | $3.4M | −2.1% | #769 of 2,057 |
| 10Kendall County, IL | 55 | 77 | 17.0 | $1.9M | +9.9% | #810 of 2,057 |
| Mercer County, IL | Not scored | 3 | 4.6 | $5.9M | −2.6% |
Other business types in Mercer County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in Mercer County, IL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 home repair companies in Mercer County. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. No official count is published for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Mercer County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Mercer County, IL spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $17.6M a year, or $2,680 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $5.9M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 6,565 households in Mercer County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Mercer County, IL compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
Mercer County has 4.6 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 63% below the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $5.9M, 2.4 times the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Mercer County would have about 7, against 3 on map listings.
How fast is Mercer County, IL growing?
Population estimates put Mercer County at 15,229 people in 2025, down 2.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 6,565 households. The median household income in Mercer County is $74,182 a year, 8% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 24.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. 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. Mercer County has no market score for home repair companies: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
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