Iowa · Market data
Polk County, IA supports 6 taxi and limousine businesses across 516,185 residents. Below: how those operators break down by size, how the market compares with its state and the country, and what the sector pays — all from the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns.
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.
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Key takeaways
Every row is read from the federal business census, or is arithmetic over it. Derived rows show their working.
| Measure | Polk County |
|---|---|
| County | Polk County, IA |
| State | Iowa |
| Residents (Census 2024 estimate) | 516,185 |
| Taxi and limousine establishments | 6 |
| Taxi and limousine employeesCensus noise flag H — approximate. | 70 |
| Taxi and limousine annual payroll | $2.1m |
| Taxi and ridesharing establishments | 3 |
| Taxi and ridesharing employeesCensus noise flag J — approximate. | 30 |
| Taxi and ridesharing annual payroll | $731,000 |
| Limousine establishments | 3 |
| Limousine employeesCensus noise flag H — approximate. | 40 |
| Limousine annual payroll | $1.4m |
| Operators with 1-4 employees | 3 |
| Operators per 100,000 residentsderived6 establishments ÷ 516,185 residents × 100,000. | 1.16 |
| Share of operators with fewer than 5 employeesderived3 of 6 establishments. | 50.0% |
| Annual payroll per employeederived$2.1m payroll ÷ 70 employees. | $30,000 |
| Taxi share of taxi-plus-limousine operatorsderived3 taxi ÷ 6 taxi and limousine establishments. | 50.0% |
| Rank among published US county marketsderivedBy taxi and limousine establishments. | 175 of 348 |
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. About County Business Patterns.
Polk County, IA has 6 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 70 people — 3 in taxi and ridesharing services and 3 in limousine service.
The published operator base here is very small, so a single new entrant materially changes the local market.
50.0 per cent of operators in Polk County, IA employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
The market mixes very small operators with a tier of larger ones, so the same county contains businesses with genuinely different problems — coverage at the small end, coordination at the large.
Polk County, IA has 1.16 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head are below the national midpoint, so each business here covers more people — and usually more ground — than the typical market.
Within Iowa the median is 1.71 per 100,000, so this county is thinner than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $30,000 per employee across the sector in Polk County, IA.
That level of payroll means labour, not vehicles, is the dominant cost — so utilisation per paid hour is the number worth managing.
FAQ
Closest by operator count, weighted towards the same state.
| County | Operators | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Flagler County, FL | 6 | 4.39 |
| St. Johns County, FL | 6 | 1.79 |
| Sarasota County, FL | 6 | 1.26 |
| Seminole County, FL | 6 | 1.21 |
| Cherokee County, GA | 6 | 2.04 |
| Johnson County, KS | 6 | 0.95 |
| Sedgwick County, KS | 6 | 1.12 |
| Jefferson County, KY | 6 | 0.76 |
| Lafayette Parish, LA | 6 | 2.36 |
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