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House cleaning businesses in Fayette County, IA
The house cleaning businesses in Fayette County, IA, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $9.3M
- On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,116 a household
- Spending per listing
- $9.3M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 19,047
- −2.1% since 2020
See the house cleaning businesses around any address in Fayette County
The site report maps the house cleaning businesses on map listings near the address, by name and distance, and sizes the households and spending around it. Or open the report at the center of Fayette County. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.
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What this means
Households in Fayette County spend about $9.3M a year on lawn care, cleaning and other household services, or $1,116 per household, 21% below the U.S. average. That works out to $9.3M per business. The spending figure covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, not only house cleaning businesses.
Fayette County has 1 house cleaning business on map listings as of September 2026. That is 1.2 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for janitorial and carpet cleaning services in Fayette County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Fayette County declined 2.1%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 house cleaning business on map listings, Fayette County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Fayette County compares
The same measures for Iowa and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all lawn care, cleaning and other household services by the house cleaning businesses 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 | Fayette County | Iowa | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 |
| Spending per listing | $9.3M | $6.3M | $6.4M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,835 | 1,735 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.6% | +6.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.1% | +1.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services | $1,116 | $1,230 | $1,414 |
| Median household income | $60,165 | $75,059 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 40 |
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
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The 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 janitorial and carpet cleaning services in Fayette 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 Fayette County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 19,047−2.1% since 2020
- Households
- 8,342
- Median age
- 43.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 731 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 26
- Median household income
- $60,165+17.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $80,301
- Median home value
- $136,800
- Jobs located here
- 7,115
- Daytime population
- 16,988Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Fayette County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the house cleaning businesses on map listings by name and distance.
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Top counties in Iowa
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Dubuque County, IA | 48 | 7 | 1.7 | $7.2M | +0.1% | #454 of 847 |
| 2Polk County, IA | 45 | 47 | 2.3 | $5.7M | +4.8% | #514 of 847 |
| 3Woodbury County, IA | 44 | 7 | 1.7 | $6.9M | +0.7% | #524 of 847 |
| 4Johnson County, IA | 40 | 18 | 2.8 | $4.5M | +4.6% | #603 of 847 |
| 5Scott County, IA | 36 | 17 | 2.3 | $5.4M | +0.4% | #660 of 847 |
| 6Story County, IA | 31 | 11 | 2.8 | $4.3M | +2.7% | #741 of 847 |
| 7Linn County, IA | 29 | 26 | 2.7 | $4.6M | +0.7% | #760 of 847 |
| 8Marion County, IA | 26 | 5 | 3.8 | $3.3M | +2.3% | #780 of 847 |
| 9Black Hawk County, IA | 18 | 19 | 3.5 | $3.4M | +0.4% | #830 of 847 |
| 10Hardin County, IA | 13 | 5 | 7.1 | $1.6M | −2.2% | #842 of 847 |
| Fayette County, IA | Not scored | 1 | 1.2 | $9.3M | −2.1% |
Other business types in Fayette 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 house cleaning businesses are in Fayette County, IA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 house cleaning business in Fayette County. The listings count house cleaners and carpet cleaners. No official count is published for janitorial and carpet cleaning services in Fayette County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Fayette County, IA spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?
About $9.3M a year, or $1,116 per household. That is 21% below the U.S. average (an index of 79, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 house cleaning business on map listings, it comes to $9.3M per business. That spending covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, which house cleaning businesses share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,342 households in Fayette County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Fayette County, IA compare with the U.S. for house cleaning businesses?
Fayette County has 1 house cleaning business on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of house cleaning businesses to household spending, Fayette County would have about 2, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Fayette County, IA growing?
Population estimates put Fayette County at 19,047 people in 2025, down 2.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,342 households. The median household income in Fayette County is $60,165 a year, 25% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 17.7% 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. Fayette County has no market score for house cleaning businesses: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Fayette County. It maps the house cleaning businesses on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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