Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
The Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro area has 1,600 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 42.17 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 888 records and 55.5% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 2.
Against Iowa’s own rate per resident for each trade, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island carries more painting, flooring, landscaping contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pool, electrical, plumbing contractors than the state average.
Among the 3 Iowa metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island's largest trades: it is 2nd of 3 for other home service, around the middle; it is the densest of them for landscaping; and it is the densest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Iowa.
The facts for Davenport-Moline-Rock Island
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 1,600
- Per 10,000 residents
- 42.17 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 29
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 1
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 1,553 independent, 16 franchise brand, 23 corporate owned, 8 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.68% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.19% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 379,441, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Davenport-Moline-Rock Island
Other home service is Davenport-Moline-Rock Island's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island'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 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island. The smallest of them here is pool.
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and plumbing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
One Davenport-Moline-Rock Island 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, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island sits close to the Iowa rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
Painting takes a larger share of Davenport-Moline-Rock Island than of Iowa, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.
Electrical is thinner in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island 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 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island's three densest trades, and pest control its thinnest.
No Davenport-Moline-Rock Island 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 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Davenport-Moline-Rock Island's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 1,450 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 58 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 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, electrical and painting are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.
Almost none of Davenport-Moline-Rock Island's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pest control holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Roofing is the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island trade whose records most often carry no street address, and plumbing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Davenport-Moline-Rock Island records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Davenport-Moline-Rock Island that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Bettendorf, Moline and Rock Island. Each of them carries one trade.
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL crosses a state line, so this metro area sits in more than one licensing regime at once. Every count above is the whole metro; every licence figure beneath it is computed inside one state.
Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Davenport-Moline-Rock Island on this site are Eugene-Springfield above it and Fort Collins-Loveland below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island's neighbours are Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh and Green Bay. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 63 | 1.66 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 58 | 1.53 | Not published | $36.99 |
| Flooring | 78 | 2.06 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 112 | 2.95 | Not published | $31.34 |
| Landscaping | 168 | 4.43 | Not published | |
| Painting | 71 | 1.87 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 24 | 0.63 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 48 | 1.27 | Not published | $36.69 |
| Pool | 2 | 0.05 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 88 | 2.32 | Not published | $23.20 |
| Other home service | 888 | 23.40 | Not 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 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Bettendorf | other home service | 103 |
| Moline | other home service | 102 |
| Rock Island | other home service | 52 |
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.