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Home repair companies in Appanoose County, IA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for home repair companies in Appanoose County, IA, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 30 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,848 of 2,057 scored counties
#43 of 67 scored counties in Iowa
- Listings
- 8
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $11.9M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,289 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.5M
- 39% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 15.4
- 24% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 12,077
- −1.7% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for home repair companies in Appanoose County is 30 (lower middle), #1,848 of 2,057 scored counties and #43 of 67 scored counties in Iowa. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Appanoose County comes to about $11.9M a year: $2,289 per household, 24% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.5M of household spending for each company on map listings, 39% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
Appanoose County has 8 home repair companies on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 4% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 15.4, 24% above the U.S. rate of 12.4.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Appanoose County was 4 in 2023. That is one for every 1,300 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $50K has gone to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Appanoose County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Appanoose County declined 1.7%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Appanoose County compares
The same measures for Iowa 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 | Appanoose County | Iowa | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 15.4 | 14.0 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.5M | $1.9M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,300 | 572 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.2% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.7% | +1.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,289 | $2,714 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $54,934 | $75,059 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 30 | 30 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 4
- Employees, 2023
- 7
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $386K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 80 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $50K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Appanoose 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 Appanoose County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 12,077−1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 5,199
- Median age
- 43.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 497 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 25
- Median household income
- $54,934+36.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $71,730
- Median home value
- $124,200
- Jobs located here
- 4,190
- Daytime population
- 10,783Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Iowa market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Iowa for home repair companies, numbered among those based in Iowa, with Appanoose County marked.
Top counties in Iowa
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Dallas County, IA | 87 | 37 | 8.7 | $3.8M | +17.8% | #10 of 2,057 |
| 2Benton County, IA | 65 | 9 | 8.8 | $3.2M | +1.8% | #356 of 2,057 |
| 3Mahaska County, IA | 61 | 5 | 5.7 | $4.4M | −1.2% | #513 of 2,057 |
| 4Story County, IA | 61 | 39 | 10.0 | $2.7M | +2.7% | #531 of 2,057 |
| 5Johnson County, IA | 61 | 75 | 11.8 | $2.4M | +4.6% | #545 of 2,057 |
| 6Guthrie County, IA | 55 | 5 | 10.9 | $2.5M | +1.6% | #781 of 2,057 |
| 7Polk County, IA | 53 | 320 | 15.6 | $1.9M | +4.8% | #911 of 2,057 |
| 8Pottawattamie County, IA | 52 | 40 | 10.6 | $2.5M | −0.7% | #932 of 2,057 |
| 9Boone County, IA | 50 | 12 | 11.0 | $2.5M | +0.4% | #1,016 of 2,057 |
| 10Black Hawk County, IA | 50 | 63 | 11.5 | $2.2M | +0.4% | #1,037 of 2,057 |
| 43Appanoose County, IA | 30 | 8 | 15.4 | $1.5M | −1.7% | #1,848 of 2,057 |
Other business types in Appanoose County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Clothing and laundry
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Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in Appanoose County, IA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 8 home repair companies in Appanoose County. None of them are chain locations. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Appanoose County, IA spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $11.9M a year, or $2,289 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 8 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $1.5M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,199 households in Appanoose County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Appanoose County, IA compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
Appanoose County has 15.4 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 24% above the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $1.5M, 39% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Appanoose County would have about 5, against 8 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,300 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
How fast is Appanoose County, IA growing?
Population estimates put Appanoose County at 12,077 people in 2025, down 1.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,199 households. The median household income in Appanoose County is $54,934 a year, 32% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 36.8% 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. Appanoose County scores 30 for home repair companies (lower middle), #1,848 of 2,057 scored counties.
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