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HVAC and plumbing companies in Marion County, IA
How Marion County, IA compares with other counties and the U.S. for HVAC and plumbing companies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 47 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #972 of 1,707 scored counties
#11 of 42 scored counties in Iowa
- Listings
- 11
- 2 chain locations (18%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $36.5M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,742 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.3M
- 30% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.3
- 32% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 34,192
- +2.3% since 2020
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What this means
At $2,742 per household (9% below the U.S. average), households in Marion County spend about $36.5M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance. That is about $3.3M of household spending for each company on map listings, 30% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only HVAC and plumbing companies.
Marion County has 11 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 18% of them, against 4% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 8.3, 32% above the U.S. rate of 6.3.
In 2023, official counts showed 10 businesses with payroll in Marion County classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors. That is one for every 1,332 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Marion County grew 2.3% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For HVAC and plumbing companies, Marion County has a Groundwork market score of 47 (lower middle): #972 of 1,707 scored counties and #11 of 42 scored counties in Iowa.
How Marion 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 HVAC and plumbing 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 | Marion County | Iowa | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.3 | 6.1 | 6.3 |
| Spending per listing | $3.3M | $4.5M | $4.8M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,332 | 1,187 | 1,162 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.6% | +7.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.3% | +1.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,742 | $2,714 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $78,680 | $75,059 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 47 | 38 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 10 → 10
- Employees, 2023
- 91
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 112 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 8The 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, heating and air-conditioning contractors in Marion 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 Marion County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 34,192+2.3% since 2020
- Households
- 13,316
- Median age
- 40.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 555 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 61
- Median household income
- $78,680+28.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $100,547
- Median home value
- $233,000
- Jobs located here
- 19,073
- Daytime population
- 36,093Residents 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 | 91 | 17 | 4.0 | $8.2M | +17.8% | #5 of 1,707 |
| 2Polk County, IA | 73 | 115 | 5.6 | $5.2M | +4.8% | #158 of 1,707 |
| 3Johnson County, IA | 69 | 36 | 5.7 | $4.9M | +4.6% | #241 of 1,707 |
| 4Black Hawk County, IA | 66 | 21 | 3.8 | $6.7M | +0.4% | #287 of 1,707 |
| 5Linn County, IA | 61 | 54 | 5.6 | $5M | +0.7% | #463 of 1,707 |
| 6Bremer County, IA | 58 | 6 | 6.2 | $4.5M | +1.1% | #573 of 1,707 |
| 7Scott County, IA | 58 | 46 | 6.3 | $4.4M | +0.4% | #578 of 1,707 |
| 8Warren County, IA | 58 | 15 | 7.3 | $4.1M | +9.0% | #587 of 1,707 |
| 9Story County, IA | 54 | 21 | 5.4 | $5M | +2.7% | #701 of 1,707 |
| 10Dickinson County, IA | 53 | 5 | 5.7 | $5M | +1.7% | #737 of 1,707 |
| 11Marion County, IA | 47 | 11 | 8.3 | $3.3M | +2.3% | #972 of 1,707 |
Other business types in Marion County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Clothing and laundry
Home services
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Questions
How many HVAC and plumbing companies are in Marion County, IA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 11 HVAC and plumbing companies in Marion County. 2 of them (18%) are chain locations. The listings count heating and air-conditioning companies and plumbers. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Marion County, IA spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $36.5M a year, or $2,742 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 11 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings, it comes to $3.3M per company. That spending covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, which HVAC and plumbing companies share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 13,316 households in Marion County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Marion County, IA compare with the U.S. for HVAC and plumbing companies?
Marion County has 8.3 HVAC and plumbing companies per 10,000 households, 32% above the U.S. rate of 6.3. Spending per company is $3.3M, 30% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. At the U.S. ratio of HVAC and plumbing companies to household spending, Marion County would have about 8, against 11 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,332 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S.
How fast is Marion County, IA growing?
Population estimates put Marion County at 34,192 people in 2025, up 2.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 13,316 households. Median household income in Marion County is $78,680, 3% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 28.9%, 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. Marion County scores 47 for HVAC and plumbing companies (lower middle), #972 of 1,707 scored counties.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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