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HVAC and plumbing companies in St. Louis County, MN
How St. Louis County, MN 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 32 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,454 of 1,707 scored counties
#36 of 52 scored counties in Minnesota
- Listings
- 74
- 3 chain locations (4%)
- Official establishments
- 76
- +4.1% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $226.9M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,605 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.1M
- 36% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.5
- 35% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 200,518
- +0.2% since 2020
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What this means
For HVAC and plumbing companies, St. Louis County has a Groundwork market score of 32 (lower middle): #1,454 of 1,707 scored counties and #36 of 52 scored counties in Minnesota. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
At $2,605 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in St. Louis County spend about $226.9M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance. That works out to $3.1M per company, 36% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only HVAC and plumbing companies.
St. Louis County has 74 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 4% of them, against 4% across the U.S. That is 8.5 per 10,000 households, 35% above the U.S. rate of 6.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in St. Louis County was 76 in 2023, up 4.1% from 2019. That is one for every 1,146 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $1.2M have gone to businesses classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in St. Louis County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of St. Louis County grew 0.2%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How St. Louis County compares
The same measures for Minnesota 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 | St. Louis County | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.5 | 6.3 | 6.3 |
| Spending per listing | $3.1M | $4.8M | $4.8M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,146 | 1,271 | 1,162 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +4.1% | +1.8% | +7.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.2% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,605 | $2,990 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $70,069 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 32 | 57 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 73 → 76+4.1% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,259
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $126.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 743 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 48The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $1.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in St. Louis 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 St. Louis County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 200,518+0.2% since 2020
- Households
- 87,115
- Median age
- 42.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 6,248 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 32
- Median household income
- $70,069+25.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,368
- Median home value
- $221,400
- Jobs located here
- 98,963
- Daytime population
- 212,532Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Minnesota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Dakota County, MN | 84 | 81 | 4.6 | $7M | +3.9% | #31 of 1,707 |
| 2Washington County, MN | 81 | 66 | 6.3 | $5.5M | +6.9% | #56 of 1,707 |
| 3Hennepin County, MN | 79 | 254 | 4.7 | $6.8M | +0.2% | #71 of 1,707 |
| 4Ramsey County, MN | 73 | 89 | 4.0 | $7.2M | −1.8% | #146 of 1,707 |
| 5Carver County, MN | 73 | 24 | 5.8 | $6.2M | +6.6% | #153 of 1,707 |
| 6Scott County, MN | 73 | 34 | 6.2 | $5.7M | +5.1% | #155 of 1,707 |
| 7Olmsted County, MN | 73 | 40 | 6.0 | $5.3M | +2.3% | #157 of 1,707 |
| 8Pine County, MN | 66 | 5 | 4.1 | $6.3M | +5.5% | #290 of 1,707 |
| 9Todd County, MN | 59 | 6 | 5.9 | $4.4M | +3.0% | #542 of 1,707 |
| 10Anoka County, MN | 58 | 99 | 7.2 | $4.3M | +4.7% | #582 of 1,707 |
| 36St. Louis County, MN | 32 | 74 | 8.5 | $3.1M | +0.2% | #1,454 of 1,707 |
Other business types in St. Louis County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many HVAC and plumbing companies are in St. Louis County, MN?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 74 HVAC and plumbing companies in St. Louis County. 3 of them (4%) are chain locations. The listings count heating and air-conditioning companies and plumbers. Official counts show 76 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in 2023, up 4.1% from 2019.
How much do households in St. Louis County, MN spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $226.9M a year, or $2,605 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 74 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings, it comes to $3.1M 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 87,115 households in St. Louis County and national spending patterns by income.
How does St. Louis County, MN compare with the U.S. for HVAC and plumbing companies?
St. Louis County has 8.5 HVAC and plumbing companies per 10,000 households, 35% above the U.S. rate of 6.3. Spending per company is $3.1M, 36% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. At the U.S. ratio of HVAC and plumbing companies to household spending, St. Louis County would have about 48, against 74 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,146 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S. The official count rose 4.1% from 2019 to 2023, against +7.6% for the U.S.
How fast is St. Louis County, MN growing?
Population estimates put St. Louis County at 200,518 people in 2025, up 0.2% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 87,115 households. Median household income in St. Louis County is $70,069, 13% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.9%, 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. St. Louis County scores 32 for HVAC and plumbing companies (lower middle), #1,454 of 1,707 scored counties.
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