Replacement demand, competitive density and housing stock for windows & doors in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA, on the same basis as every other US metro. Every figure is computed from current Census, BLS and NOAA data and traceable to its source.
How much windows & doors work the Des Moines metro generates in a year, and what share of it a single branch or acquisition could realistically reach.
Computed from the component scores below — not written by hand, and not generated.
Des Moines, IA has an unusually large pool of addressable homes, real construction activity relative to its size and a climate that works the building envelope hard. That works out to 177,045 addressable homes and an effective replacement cycle of about 19 years, or $128M of windows & doors a year.
Against that, the market has a crowded contractor market and housing too new to need you yet. On these numbers it deserves real evaluation — a shortlist is where markets like this go to be admired and then forgotten.
Seven components, each a percentile against all 935 US metros. The opportunity score is their weighted average, tilted toward what windows & doors specifically depends on.
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The Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro generates roughly $127.81M of windows & doors demand a year, across about 13,105 jobs. That combines replacement work on the existing housing stock — 177,045 homes that can buy this service, cycling at the typical replacement interval — with windows & doors work on new construction. A single operator serving part of the metro can realistically reach $70.29M of it.
Des Moines scores 76.4 out of 100 for windows & doors, which ranks it 4 of 935 US metro areas. Des Moines, IA has an unusually large pool of addressable homes, real construction activity relative to its size and a climate that works the building envelope hard.
There is no metro-level count of windows & doors firms specifically — the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes establishments at the trade-group level. For the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro that is 1,403 specialty-trade contracting establishments (NAICS 238, covering roofing, siding, windows, gutters and the other exterior trades). That works out to 143.4 owner-occupied homes per contractor — the higher that number, the less crowded the market.
The average home in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro is about 42.6 years old, and 47% of homes predate 1980. The median year of construction is 1984 — that figure and the average age are two different statistics and will not line up exactly, because the average is a weighted mean across every construction-year band while the median is only the midpoint. Housing age is the single strongest driver of windows & doors replacement demand, because roofs, siding and windows are replaced on a cycle rather than bought on impulse.
Public sources only: the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey and Building Permits Survey for housing and households, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for contractor counts, and NOAA Storm Events and Climate Normals for hail and weather exposure. Market sizing applies published replacement cycles and average ticket prices to that stock — it is a model, not a measurement, and every assumption is visible inside the interactive report.
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Public data only. No proprietary panels, no estimates of estimates — every figure on this page traces to one of these.
Figures reflect the most recent published vintage of each source as of 2026-08-13. Market sizing is a model, not a measurement: it applies replacement cycles and average ticket prices to the housing stock. Service areas are whole metros, so a single branch serving a drive-time radius will address less than the totals shown.