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Home repair companies in Mills County, IA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for home repair companies in Mills County, IA, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 34 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,741 of 2,057 scored counties
#37 of 67 scored counties in Iowa
- Listings
- 10
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 14
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $15.6M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,893 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.6M
- 36% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 18.5
- 49% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 14,793
- +2.6% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for home repair companies in Mills County is 34 (lower middle), #1,741 of 2,057 scored counties and #37 of 67 scored counties in Iowa. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 10 home repair companies in Mills County. None of them are chain locations, against 4% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 18.5, 49% above the U.S. rate of 12.4.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Mills County comes to about $15.6M a year: $2,893 per household, 4% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.6M of household spending for each company on map listings, 36% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
Official counts show 14 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Mills County in 2023. That is one for every 385 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Mills County grew 2.6%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Mills 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 | Mills County | Iowa | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 18.5 | 14.0 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.6M | $1.9M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 385 | 572 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.2% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.6% | +1.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,893 | $2,714 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $90,753 | $75,059 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 34 | 30 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 10 → 14
- Employees, 2023
- 46
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.9M
- 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
- 6The 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 Mills 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 Mills County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 14,793+2.6% since 2020
- Households
- 5,394
- Median age
- 42.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 84%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 437 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 33
- Median household income
- $90,753+25.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $109,810
- Median home value
- $237,800
- Jobs located here
- 3,516
- Daytime population
- 10,867Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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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 |
| 37Mills County, IA | 34 | 10 | 18.5 | $1.6M | +2.6% | #1,741 of 2,057 |
Other business types in Mills County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
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Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in Mills County, IA?
There are 10 home repair companies on map listings in Mills County as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 14 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Mills County, IA spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $15.6M a year, or $2,893 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 10 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $1.6M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,394 households in Mills County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Mills County, IA compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
Mills County has 18.5 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 49% above the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $1.6M, 36% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the national ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Mills County would have about 6, against 10 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 385 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
How fast is Mills County, IA growing?
Population estimates put Mills County at 14,793 people in 2025, up 2.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,394 households. Median household income in Mills County is $90,753, 12% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.9%, 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. Mills County scores 34 for home repair companies (lower middle), #1,741 of 2,057 scored counties.
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