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Iowa · real estate agents · September 2026
How many real estate agents in Iowa?
Count taken September 5, 2026Page built September 5, 2026
2,203 real estate agents in Iowa had a published, current brokerage profile when we counted on September 5, 2026. That is 0.4% of the 493,081 agents counted across the United States, and ranks Iowa 37th of 51 states and DC.
"Agent" on this page means a person with a live profile on a brokerage's website at the time of the count. It is not the number of licences Iowa has issued, which is higher because many licensees are inactive or unaffiliated, and it is not REALTOR® association membership. The count covers 10 brands; see how the counting works for what is and is not included.
Change over time
This is the first published count for Iowa (September 2026). When the next count is taken, the change will appear here with both dates.
Largest real estate brokerages in Iowa
The ten biggest real estate companies in Iowa by number of agents with a published profile. A company that publishes no office names (Keller Williams, RE/MAX, Compass and others) appears as one row.
| Brokerage | Agents | Share of attributed agents | Brand | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RE/MAX | 1,074 | 48.8% | |
| 2 | Keller Williams | 379 | 17.2% | |
| 3 | CENTURY 21 Signature Real Estate | 222 | 10.1% | Century 21 |
| 4 | Real Broker | 170 | 7.7% | Real Brokerage |
| 5 | Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices | 75 | 3.4% | |
| 6 | CENTURY 21 ProLink | 58 | 2.6% | Century 21 |
| 7 | Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Good Life Group | 55 | 2.5% | Better Homes and Gardens |
| 8 | Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Innovations | 24 | 1.1% | Better Homes and Gardens |
| 9 | CENTURY 21 Preferred | 23 | 1.0% | Century 21 |
| 10 | Fathom Realty | 23 | 1.0% |
By brand rather than company, RE/MAX has 1,074 (49%), Keller Williams has 379 (17%), Century 21 has 333 (15%), Real Brokerage has 170 (8%) and Better Homes and Gardens has 83 (4%). A brand's figure adds up every company operating under that name, so a franchise like Coldwell Banker or Century 21 is spread over many rows in the table above but appears once here.
Which Iowa cities have the most real estate agents?
Cities are taken from the office or agent address as published; suburbs are counted separately from their core city.
| City | Agents | Share of Iowa | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Des Moines | 212 | 9.6% |
| 2 | Des Moines | 211 | 9.6% |
| 3 | Ankeny | 175 | 7.9% |
| 4 | Cedar Rapids | 154 | 7.0% |
| 5 | Sioux City | 135 | 6.1% |
| 6 | Waukee | 103 | 4.7% |
| 7 | Bettendorf | 86 | 3.9% |
| 8 | Ames | 84 | 3.8% |
| 9 | Urbandale | 83 | 3.8% |
| 10 | Pleasant Hill | 80 | 3.6% |
24 Iowa agents (1.1%) have a profile that names no city and are counted only in the state total.
Websites, phone numbers and email
Among the 2,203 Iowa agents whose profiles we check for a personal website, 3.4% have a site of their own rather than a page on the brokerage's site. The national figure is 7.2%. 90.1% of the 2,203 checked agents publish a direct phone number (national: 90.7%). Every counted agent has a published email address, which is the inclusion rule. In Iowa, 64% of those addresses are on a franchise domain, 23% on the agent's or the office's own domain, and 13% on free webmail such as Gmail or Yahoo. No address appears on this site.
Where the data comes from
The count is built from the public agent directories of 10 brokerage brands operating in Iowa, led by RE/MAX, Keller Williams, Century 21 and Real Brokerage. Brands that publish no directory, and independent brokerages outside those networks, are not counted, so the true number of working agents is higher than the figure on this page; the ranking of brokerages and cities is among the networks we can see.
The source is a per-agent contact file, the Iowa realtor list at usrealtorlist.com; an agent is counted here only if that file holds a published, current email address for them, which keeps the count to working agents.
Questions this page answers
- How many real estate agents in Iowa?
- 2,203 as of September 5, 2026, counting agents with a published brokerage profile. Licence counts and REALTOR® membership are different, larger numbers.
- What is the largest real estate brokerage in Iowa?
- RE/MAX, with 1,074 agents, 48.8% of Iowa agents whose profile names a brokerage. By brand, RE/MAX is largest with 1,074.
- Which city in Iowa has the most real estate agents?
- West Des Moines with 212, followed by Des Moines (211) and Ankeny (175).
Cite this page
Realty Census (2026). How many real estate agents in Iowa? 2,203 in September 2026. Count dated 2026-09-05. https://realtycensus.com/iowa/