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Home-service contractors in Cedar Rapids, IA

The Cedar Rapids, IA metro area has 1,099 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 39.87 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 671 records and 61.1% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 4.

Against Iowa’s own rate per resident for each trade, Cedar Rapids carries more pool, painting contractors than the state average. It carries fewer electrical, HVAC, pest control contractors than the state average.

Among the 3 Iowa metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Cedar Rapids's largest trades: it is the densest of them for other home service; it is 2nd of 3 for landscaping, around the middle; and it is 2nd of 3 for HVAC, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Iowa.

The facts for Cedar Rapids

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,099
Per 10,000 residents
39.87 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
16
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,048 independent, 20 franchise brand, 14 corporate owned, 17 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.54% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.73% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 275,668, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Cedar Rapids

Other home service is Cedar Rapids's largest trade, and three of every five records this site holds here sit in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.

In order, Cedar Rapids's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and roofing. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Cedar Rapids. The smallest of them here is pool.

Cedar Rapids's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and cleaning. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

One Cedar Rapids trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.

Per resident, Cedar Rapids sits close to the Iowa rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Painting takes a larger share of Cedar Rapids than of Iowa, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Electrical is thinner in Cedar Rapids than across Iowa, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Cedar Rapids's three densest trades, and cleaning its thinnest.

No Cedar Rapids trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Cedar Rapids, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing in Cedar Rapids. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Cedar Rapids, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Cedar Rapids's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,690 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 43 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Of the Cedar Rapids records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations and concentrate in pest control; the heaviest corporate-owned trade here is pest control.

Within Cedar Rapids, electrical and painting are the most independently held trades and plumbing the least.

Almost none of Cedar Rapids's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Cleaning holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Other home service is the Cedar Rapids trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Cedar Rapids records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Pool added the largest share of new records and other home service lost the largest share to closed flags.

One city inside Cedar Rapids, Marion, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Cedar Rapids, IA sits inside Iowa alone, so the labour market this page counts and the licensing regime that governs it are the same geography.

Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Cedar Rapids on this site are Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard above it and Slidell-Mandeville-Covington below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Cedar Rapids's neighbours are Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington and Springfield. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Cedar Rapids

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning311.12Not published
Electrical431.56Not published$24.15
Flooring421.52Not published
HVAC642.32Not published$29.17
Landscaping883.19Not published
Painting491.78Not published
Pest control120.44Not published
Plumbing381.38Not published$40.01
Pool40.15Not published
Roofing572.07Not published$23.00
Other home service67124.34Not published

Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Roofers. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026.

One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.

Cities inside Cedar Rapids with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Marionother home service85

The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.

Home-service contractors in Iowa carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.