Metro fact page
Pest control contractors in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
The Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area has 53 pest control contractors, or 0.72 per 10,000 residents.
What pest control work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national pest control page. Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for pest control, so this page shows no licensed share; the Iowa page says what it does publish.
The facts
- Pest control contractors in this metro
- 53
- Per 10,000 residents
- 0.72 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 6
- 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 pest control record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- Not published for this trade
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 48 independent, 2 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% 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.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about pest control in Des Moines-West Des Moines
By record count, pest control is the tenth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Des Moines-West Des Moines, behind flooring and ahead of pool. 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 more pest control records than Iowa as a whole.
The independent share of Des Moines-West Des Moines's pest control records is close to the Iowa figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
Iowa publishes no business-level licence source for pest control 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 pest control 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 pest control in Des Moines-West Des Moines, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.
No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to pest control cleanly enough to print, so Des Moines-West Des Moines carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.
Of the Des Moines-West Des Moines pest control records that are not independent, 2 are franchise brands and 1 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.
Part of Des Moines-West Des Moines's pest control records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.
More pest control 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 pest control 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 pest control page for, Des Moines-West Des Moines carries the most records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a pest control page for rather than every metro area in Iowa.
Ordered by pest control records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a pest control page for, the hubs either side of Des Moines-West Des Moines are Macon-Bibb County above it and Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington below it.
Pest control contractors, A to Z
53 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- ABC Pest ControlClive, IAListed in open place data
- Accurate Pest ControlUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Amson TechnologyWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Animal Removal SolutionsBondurant, IAListed in open place data
- Arrow Pest ControlNewton, IAListed in open place data
- Bethels Riteway Pest ControlUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Bobcat Wildlife & Pest ManagementRedfield, IAListed in open place data
- C&C Home ServicesAltoona, IAListed in open place data
- Capital City Pest ControlWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Central Iowa Pest Control ServicesWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Controlled AsbestosAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Critter ControlWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Critter Control of Des MoinesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Cyclone Pest ManagementPanora, IAListed in open place data
- Cyclone Pest ManagementUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Des Moines Pest ControlUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Des Moines Pest ControlJohnston, IAListed in open place data
- Diam Pest ControlUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Downs Pest ControlDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Fenix Pest ControlAnkeny, IAListed in open place data
- Genuine Wildlife ControlGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Hawkeye ExterminatorsDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Hosier Refrigeration SupplyDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Hunter's HoneyDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Iowa Pest & TermiteWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Iowa's Bat ControlDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Janssen Pest SolutionsUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Janssen Pest SolutionsDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Jn Termite Pest ControlClive, IAListed in open place data
- Midwest Pest ManagementJohnston, IAListed in open place data
- Miller Pest & TermiteClive, IAListed in open place data
- Miller Pest & TermiteJohnston, IAListed in open place data
- Modern Control ServiceUrbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Orkin Pest & Termite ControlWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- PesTech Pest SolutionsGrimes, IAListed in open place data
- Peterson Pest & Termite ControlDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Power ServicesCarlisle, IAListed in open place data
- Preferred Pest CONTROLJohnston, IAListed in open place data
- Presto-XWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Pro-Staff Termite and PestDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Quality Traffic ControlDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- REW Services CorporationDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Rgis Inventory SpecialistsWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Ridd X Termite Pest ControlWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Robinson Termite & Pest ControlDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Rove Pest ControlDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Seneca CompaniesDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Spraying Systems Co.Urbandale, IAListed in open place data
- Springer Pest SolutionsWest Des Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Steves Integrated Pest ControlNorwalk, IAListed in open place data
- Superior Pest ControlWaukee, IAListed in open place data
- TerminixDes Moines, IAListed in open place data
- Wilson Bros Pest ControlPerry, IAListed in open place data
Other trades in Des Moines-West Des Moines
- Cleaning 85
- Electrical 92
- Flooring 74
- HVAC 142
- Landscaping 175
- Painting 79
- 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.