Home services · Small-town market · Oregon
Home repair companies in The Dalles, OR area
The home repair companies in The Dalles, OR area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 31 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #463 of 526 scored small-town markets
#9 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon
- Listings
- 14
- 1 chain location (7%)
- Official establishments
- 24
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $26.7M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,532 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.9M
- 21% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 13.3
- 7% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 26,310
- −1.1% since 2020
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What this means
For home repair companies, The Dalles area has a Groundwork market score of 31 (lower middle): #463 of 526 scored small-town markets and #9 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in The Dalles area comes to about $26.7M a year: $2,532 per household, 16% below the U.S. average. Spread across 14 home repair companies, that is $1.9M per company, 21% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
The Dalles area has 14 home repair companies on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (7%) is a chain location, against 4% across the U.S. That is 13.3 per 10,000 households, 7% above the U.S. rate of 12.4.
Official counts show 24 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in The Dalles area in 2023. That is one for every 440 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $828K have gone to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in The Dalles area. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of The Dalles area declined 1.1%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How The Dalles area compares
The same measures for Oregon 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 | The Dalles area | Oregon | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 13.3 | 11.0 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.9M | $2.6M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 440 | 605 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +8.3% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.1% | +0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,532 | $2,907 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $64,175 | $83,011 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 31 | 53 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 24
- Employees, 2023
- 128
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $8.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 141 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 11The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $828K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in The Dalles 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 Dalles area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 26,310−1.1% since 2020
- Households
- 10,563
- Median age
- 42.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 2,381 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 11
- Median household income
- $64,175+20.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,059
- Median home value
- $367,400
- Jobs located here
- 10,091
- Daytime population
- 24,380Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Oregon market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Oregon for home repair companies, numbered among those based in Oregon, with The Dalles area marked.
Top small-town markets in Oregon
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hermiston-Pendleton, OR | 68 | 29 | 8.8 | $2.9M | +1.8% | #67 of 526 |
| 2Roseburg, OR | 55 | 42 | 8.8 | $2.8M | +0.6% | #199 of 526 |
| 3Newport, OR | 54 | 25 | 10.8 | $2.3M | +0.3% | #214 of 526 |
| 4Brookings, OR | 53 | 9 | 8.1 | $3.2M | −3.8% | #224 of 526 |
| 5Coos Bay-North Bend, OR | 52 | 27 | 9.4 | $2.7M | −1.5% | #240 of 526 |
| 6Ontario, OR-ID | 52 | 24 | 12.0 | $2.1M | +5.0% | #246 of 526 |
| 7Klamath Falls, OR | 36 | 39 | 13.4 | $1.8M | +0.9% | #419 of 526 |
| 8Hood River, OR | 36 | 17 | 19.0 | $1.6M | −0.7% | #422 of 526 |
| 9The Dalles, OR | 31 | 14 | 13.3 | $1.9M | −1.1% | #463 of 526 |
| 10Astoria, OR | 31 | 32 | 17.8 | $1.5M | −0.6% | #466 of 526 |
Other business types in The Dalles area
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
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Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in The Dalles, OR area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 14 home repair companies in The Dalles area. One of them (7%) is a chain location. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 24 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023.
How much do households in The Dalles, OR area spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $26.7M a year, or $2,532 per household. That is 16% below the U.S. average (an index of 84, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 14 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $1.9M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 10,563 households in The Dalles area and national spending patterns by income.
How does The Dalles, OR area compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
The Dalles area has 13.3 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 7% above the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $1.9M, 21% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of home repair companies to household spending, The Dalles area would have about 11, against 14 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 440 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
How fast is The Dalles, OR area growing?
Population estimates put The Dalles area at 26,310 people in 2025, down 1.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 10,563 households. The median household income in The Dalles area is $64,175 a year, 21% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 20.9% 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. 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 Dalles area scores 31 for home repair companies (lower middle), #463 of 526 scored small-town markets.
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