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House cleaning businesses in the Sheboygan, WI metro area

How the Sheboygan, WI 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 38 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #283 of 375 scored metro areas
#9 of 13 scored metro areas based in Wisconsin

Listings
10
1 chain location (10%)
Official establishments
26
+4.0% since 2019
Household spending a year
$60.3M
On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,212 a household
Spending per listing
$6M
6% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
2.0
9% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
118,047
0.0% since 2020

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What this means

For house cleaning businesses, the Sheboygan metro area has a Groundwork market score of 38 (lower middle): #283 of 375 scored metro areas and #9 of 13 scored metro areas based in Wisconsin. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.

At $1,212 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in the Sheboygan metro area spend about $60.3M a year on lawn care, cleaning and other household services. That is about $6M of household spending for each business on map listings, 6% 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 Sheboygan metro area has 10 house cleaning businesses on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (10%) is a chain location, against 8% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 2.0, 9% below the U.S. rate of 2.2.

Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Sheboygan metro area in 2023, up 4.0% from 2019. That is one for every 1,913 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $268K have gone to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Sheboygan metro area. Population estimates put the population change in the Sheboygan metro area from 2020 to 2025 at 0.0%, against +3.1% for the U.S.

How the Sheboygan metro area compares

The same measures for Wisconsin 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.

House cleaning in Sheboygan, WI metro area compared with Wisconsin and the U.S.
MeasureSheboygan metro areaWisconsinU.S.
Listings per 10k households2.02.02.2
Spending per listing$6M$6.4M$6.4M
Households per official establishment1,9131,7921,735
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+4.0%+5.4%+6.6%
Population growth, 2020–20250.0%+1.3%+3.1%
Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services$1,212$1,250$1,414
Median household income$73,094$77,485$80,734
Groundwork market score3840

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
26+4.0% over the period
Employees, 2023
313
Annual payroll, 2023
$7.7M
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
101 chain location
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
9The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
2
Amount
$268K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in the Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
118,0470.0% since 2020
Households
49,725
Median age
42.3
Homes lived in by their owners
71%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
512 sq. mi.
People per square mile
231
Median household income
$73,094+20.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$93,780
Median home value
$232,700
Jobs located here
58,857
Daytime population
120,358Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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House cleaning across Wisconsin

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Wisconsin for house cleaning businesses, numbered among those based in Wisconsin (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Sheboygan metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Wisconsin

Metro areas in Wisconsin ranked for house cleaning businesses by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Appleton, WI65151.5$8.7M+2.7%#72 of 375
2Fond du Lac, WI6261.4$8.7M+0.5%#86 of 375
3Oshkosh-Neenah, WI57111.5$8M+1.4%#113 of 375
4Wausau, WI5391.6$7.9M+1.0%#148 of 375
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI532992.0$7.1M+2.6%#152 of 375
5Green Bay, WI49231.7$7.4M+2.5%#189 of 375
Duluth, MN-WI46242.0$6M+0.2%#233 of 375
6Madison, WI45722.4$5.6M+4.1%#236 of 375
7Kenosha, WI40162.3$5.5M−0.4%#268 of 375
8Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI381292.0$6.5M0.0%#281 of 375
9Sheboygan, WI38102.0$6M0.0%#283 of 375

Other business types in the Sheboygan metro area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many house cleaning businesses are in the Sheboygan, WI metro area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 10 house cleaning businesses in the Sheboygan metro area. One of them (10%) is a chain location. The listings count house cleaners and carpet cleaners. Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in 2023, up 4.0% from 2019.

How much do households in the Sheboygan, WI metro area spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?

About $60.3M a year, or $1,212 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 10 house cleaning businesses on map listings, it comes to $6M 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 49,725 households in the Sheboygan metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Sheboygan, WI metro area compare with the U.S. for house cleaning businesses?

The Sheboygan metro area has 2.0 house cleaning businesses per 10,000 households, 9% below the U.S. rate of 2.2. Spending per business is $6M, 6% below the U.S. figure of $6.4M. At the U.S. ratio of house cleaning businesses to household spending, the Sheboygan metro area would have about 9, against 10 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,913 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. The official count rose 4.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.6% for the U.S.

How fast is the Sheboygan, WI metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Sheboygan metro area at 118,047 people in 2025, unchanged since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 49,725 households. The median household income in the Sheboygan metro area is $73,094 a year, 9% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 20.4% 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 Sheboygan metro area scores 38 for house cleaning businesses (lower middle), #283 of 375 scored metro areas.

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