Iowa · NAICS 531 · Annual, 2025

Real Estate in Iowa

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 531 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Real Estate (NAICS 531) employed about 10,500 people in Iowa across roughly 3,221 establishments, with average annual pay of $60,220.

Employment in Real Estate in Iowa grew 11.3% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Iowa than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.57). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Iowa are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 10,500Employment, 2025
  • 3,221Establishments
  • $60,220Avg. annual pay
  • 0.7%Share of Iowa jobs
  • 0.57Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Real Estate in Iowa, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 9,440 to 10,500.05K10K15K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 9,440; 2005 9,330; 2006 9,290; 2007 8,890; 2008 8,500; 2009 8,070; 2010 8,350; 2011 8,750; 2012 8,630; 2013 8,930; 2014 9,250; 2015 9,360; 2016 9,700; 2017 9,910; 2018 10,200; 2019 10,500; 2020 10,500; 2021 10,800; 2022 10,900; 2023 10,500; 2024 10,500; 2025 10,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202510,5153,221$60,224 0.2%est. · 1.00
202410,4903,324$57,545 0.3%est. · 1.00
202310,4543,366$55,423 4.4%est. · 1.00
202210,9373,380$57,085 1.3%est. · 1.00
202110,7933,286$54,352 3.1%est. · 1.00
202010,4733,185$51,676 0.3%est. · 1.00
201910,5043,090$48,513 2.9%est. · 1.00
201810,2022,974$46,912 3.0%est. · 1.00
20179,9052,847$46,213 2.2%est. · 1.00
20169,6952,726$45,427 3.5%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Real Estate in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth

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