Metro fact page
Electrical contractors in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
The Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area has 92 electrical contractors, or 1.25 per 10,000 residents.
What electrical work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national electrical page. Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for electrical, so this page shows no licensed share; the Iowa page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Electrical contractors in this metro
- 92
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.25 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 2
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in Iowa. No electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 2,870 employed, $62,840 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Electricians. Median hourly wage $30.21.
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 92 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.09% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 737,164, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2111.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about electrical in Des Moines-West Des Moines
By record count, electrical is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Des Moines-West Des Moines, behind roofing and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Des Moines-West Des Moines.
Per resident, Des Moines-West Des Moines carries far fewer electrical records than Iowa as a whole.
The independent share of Des Moines-West Des Moines's electrical records is close to the Iowa figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Far more of Des Moines-West Des Moines's electrical records carry no street address than across Iowa. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.
Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for electrical that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Des Moines-West Des Moines is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no electrical record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for electrical in Des Moines-West Des Moines, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.
The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 2,870 workers across Des Moines-West Des Moines, and this site publishes 92 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.
No Des Moines-West Des Moines electrical record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.
No Des Moines-West Des Moines electrical record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
More electrical records first appeared in Des Moines-West Des Moines over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.
No city inside Des Moines-West Des Moines differs from the metro enough on electrical to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.
Among the 3 Iowa metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for, Des Moines-West Des Moines carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a electrical page for rather than every metro area in Iowa.
Ordered by electrical records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a electrical page for, the hubs either side of Des Moines-West Des Moines are Toledo above it and Lakeland-Winter Haven below it.
Electrical contractors, A to Z
91 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A & W ElectricAdel, IAListed in open place data
- A & W Electrical ContractorsGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- A To Z ElectricDexter, IAListed in open place data
- A-Wye ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- ABC Electrical ServicesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Ark Electrical ServicesWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- Armor ElectricAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- B K ElectricColfax, IAListed in open place data
- Baker ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Ball ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Berry ElectricWinterset, IAListed in open place data
- Bierbaum ElectricAdel, IAListed in open place data
- Biermann Electric Co.Johnston, IAListed in open place data
- Biermann Electric Co.Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Blaser ElectricWoodward, IAListed in open place data
- Bns Network SolutionsAltoona, IAListed in open place data
- Brad Moeller ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Bright Electrical Sup Co.Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Brittain ElectricWoodward, IAListed in open place data
- Bullock ElectricUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Burkhead ElectricIndianola, IAListed in open place data
- Burns ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Cable TechnologyGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- CMC ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Code ElectricGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Cohenour ElectricVan Meter, IAListed in open place data
- Concept ElectricWinterset, IAListed in open place data
- Conner ElectricCumming, IAListed in open place data
- Cupertino ElectricAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Curt's ElectricPerry, IAListed in open place data
- Darrell's ElectricNewton, IAListed in open place data
- Davies Electric & Bin ServiceIndianola, IAListed in open place data
- De Maranville InstallationsWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- De Penning & Assoc ElectricalNewton, IAListed in open place data
- Deaver ElectricGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Deaver Electric Inc.Grimes, IAListed in open place data
- Destiny ElectricAdel, IAListed in open place data
- Dr ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Drewis ElectricNewton, IAListed in open place data
- Eagle ElectricAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Electrical and Environmental SystemsDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Electrical Installations of IowaDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Electrical Materials Co.Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Elite Electric ServiceUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Extreme ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- GWA SolarAltoona, IAListed in open place data
- Helens EnterprisesGuthrie Center, IAListed in open place data
- Henrichsen ElectricCumming, IAListed in open place data
- Henrichsen ElectricCumming, IAListed in open place data
- Heritage Craft ConstructionAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Homestead BuildingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Honorable ElectricAdel, IAListed in open place data
- Hot Wire Diversified ServicesPleasant Hill, IAListed in open place data
- Integra Electric SolutionsIndianola, IAListed in open place data
- Iowa One CallDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Jones ElectricSaint Charles, IAListed in open place data
- Kaas ElectricAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Ken's ElectricNewton, IAListed in open place data
- Keystone Electrical Manufacturer Co.Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Kline ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Knight ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- LD ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Lighthouse Landscapes LightingDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- M & S ElectricMitchellville, IAListed in open place data
- M&S ElectricBondurant, IAListed in open place data
- Mcandrews ElectricDexter, IAListed in open place data
- Miller ElectricIndianola, IAListed in open place data
- Modern Electrical ServiceDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Modern Electrical ServicesAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- MPT ElectricEarlham, IAListed in open place data
- Neller EnterprisesIndianola, IAListed in open place data
- Outdoor EnvironmentsUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Perkins ElectricNorwalk, IAListed in open place data
- Platinum Electric ServiceUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Premier Electric of IowaJohnston, IAListed in open place data
- Price Industrial ElectricDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Pro ElectricDe Soto, IAListed in open place data
- Purelight Power of IowaUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Redline ElectricClive, IAListed in open place data
- Seneca CompaniesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Sholty ElectricBayard, IAListed in open place data
- Stewart ElectricBondurant, IAListed in open place data
- Strange Electric and PerformanceNew Virginia, IAListed in open place data
- Sully Electric & ControlsSully, IAListed in open place data
- Superior LightingClive, IAListed in open place data
- Team KlineDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- The Fix-It ManWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- Umbaugh ElectricWinterset, IAListed in open place data
- US Electrician Home Service NampaNampa, IAListed in open place data
- Venteicher ElectricPanora, IAListed in open place data
- Venteicher ElectricGuthrie Center, IAListed in open place data
Other trades in Des Moines-West Des Moines
- Cleaning 85
- Flooring 74
- HVAC 142
- Landscaping 175
- Painting 79
- Pest control 53
- Plumbing 82
- Roofing 105
- Other home service 1,330
- All trades in Des Moines-West Des Moines
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Des Moines-West Des Moines, so it is answered on the overview above instead.