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House cleaning businesses in the Omaha, NE-IA metro area
How the Omaha, NE-IA metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for house cleaning businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 42 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #254 of 375 scored metro areas
#1 of 3 scored metro areas based in Nebraska
- Listings
- 88
- 10 chain locations (11%)
- Official establishments
- 316
- +1.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $513.8M
- On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,318 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.8M
- 9% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 2.3
- 5% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 1,009,836
- +4.2% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Omaha metro area spend about $513.8M a year on lawn care, cleaning and other household services, or $1,318 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. Spread across 88 house cleaning businesses, that is $5.8M per business, 9% below the U.S. figure of $6.4M. The spending figure covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, not only house cleaning businesses.
The Omaha metro area has 88 house cleaning businesses on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 11% of them, against 8% across the U.S. That is 2.3 per 10,000 households, 5% above the U.S. rate of 2.2.
Official counts show 316 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Omaha metro area in 2023, up 1.0% from 2019. That is one for every 1,234 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 14 SBA-backed loans worth $3.7M have gone to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Omaha metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Omaha metro area grew 4.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For house cleaning businesses, the Omaha metro area has a Groundwork market score of 42 (lower middle): #254 of 375 scored metro areas and #1 of 3 scored metro areas based in Nebraska.
How the Omaha metro area compares
The same measures for Nebraska 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 | Omaha metro area | Nebraska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| Spending per listing | $5.8M | $5.8M | $6.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,234 | 1,388 | 1,735 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +1.0% | +4.2% | +6.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.2% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services | $1,318 | $1,248 | $1,414 |
| Median household income | $84,829 | $76,475 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 42 | 30 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 316+1.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 3,661
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $108.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 8810 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 80The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 14
- Amount
- $3.7M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Omaha metro 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 Omaha metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 1,009,836+4.2% since 2020
- Households
- 389,812
- Median age
- 37.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 66%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 4,346 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 226
- Median household income
- $84,829+25.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $113,627
- Median home value
- $268,600
- Jobs located here
- 507,201
- Daytime population
- 999,164Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Nebraska market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Nebraska for house cleaning businesses, numbered among those based in Nebraska (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Omaha metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Nebraska
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Omaha, NE-IA | 42 | 88 | 2.3 | $5.8M | +4.2% | #254 of 375 |
| Sioux City, IA-NE-SD | 33 | 12 | 2.2 | $5.6M | +1.0% | #312 of 375 |
| 2Lincoln, NE | 31 | 32 | 2.3 | $5.4M | +3.3% | #325 of 375 |
| 3Grand Island, NE | 28 | 6 | 2.0 | $5.9M | +1.5% | #347 of 375 |
Other business types in the Omaha metro area
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 the Omaha, NE-IA metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 88 house cleaning businesses in the Omaha metro area. 10 of them (11%) are chain locations. The listings count house cleaners and carpet cleaners. Official counts show 316 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in 2023, up 1.0% from 2019.
How much do households in the Omaha, NE-IA metro area spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?
About $513.8M a year, or $1,318 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 88 house cleaning businesses on map listings, it comes to $5.8M 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 389,812 households in the Omaha metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Omaha, NE-IA metro area compare with the U.S. for house cleaning businesses?
The Omaha metro area has 2.3 house cleaning businesses per 10,000 households, 5% above the U.S. rate of 2.2. Spending per business is $5.8M, 9% below the U.S. figure of $6.4M. At the U.S. ratio of house cleaning businesses to household spending, the Omaha metro area would have about 80, against 88 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,234 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. The official count rose 1.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.6% for the U.S.
How fast is the Omaha, NE-IA metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Omaha metro area at 1,009,836 people in 2025, up 4.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 389,812 households. The median household income in the Omaha metro area is $84,829 a year, 5% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 25.0% 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. The Omaha metro area scores 42 for house cleaning businesses (lower middle), #254 of 375 scored metro areas.
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