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Why Create your Successful Business in Hancock County, Iowa?

Although rooted in a strong tradition of farming and other ag related enterprises, Hancock County is home to advanced manufacturing firms, food product manufacturing, long haul trucking, along with the security of modern health care.
Sitting in the center of an eight-state market of nearly one million businesses and thirty-five million people, Iowa's Midwest location offers a distinct advantage to businesses with both domestic and international markets and suppliers.
We do business in Hancock county. Why don't you?
Don’t take our word for it. We've also got the data to back us up.

#1 STATE FOR COST OF LIVING

By CNBC - 2023

#1

State for Fiscal Responsibility
(CATO Institute, 2022)

NO PROPERTY TAX

On manufacturing machinery, equipment or computers in IA

Iowa is 3rd

state for opportunity

(U.S. News and World Report, 2024)

$2.3 BILLION

Capital investment in Iowa

#1 in Renewable Energy

lower industrial electricity rates than the national average

#1 RANKED STATE

MILLENNIAL HOMEOWNERS
(Real Simple, 2023)

Agriculture

#1 Producer of eggs, corn, pork, AND #2 in SOYBEANs

USDA, 2022

#1 Highest Concentration of Agricultural Feedstock and Chemical Employment

EIA, 2024

Manufacturing & Technology

#2 IN THE NATION FOR PERCENTAGE OF STATE GDP FROM FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

BEA, 2024

$44.46B CONTRIBUTION FROM IOWA'S LARGEST INDUSTRY SECTOR - ADVANCED MANUFACTURING

FRED, 2024

Bioscience

#1 PRODUCER OF ETHANOL

EIA, 2024

#2 RANKED FOR MOST PLANT AND SOIL SCIENTISTS OF ALL STATEs

BLS, 2024

#1 HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF AGRICULTURAL FEEDSTOCK AND CHEMICAL EMPLOYMENT

BLS, 2024

Exports

  • BEEF

    $54 Million

  • EGGS

    $1.6 Million

  • PORK

    $114 Million

  • CORN

    $470 Million

  • SOYBEANS

    $404 Million

Iowa's top ten manufactured or value-added exports

Iowa Economic Development, 2025

Engineering

Iowa State University-Record enrollment of 6,978 engineering students (fall 2024).

University of Iowa- 1,690 enrollment of total engineering students (fall 2024)

#1 in Wind Energy

59%+ STATEWIDE ELECTRICITY GENERATION IS FROM WIND

EIA, 2023

Iowa's utilities have announced new wind energy projects with investments totaling $3.9 billion, reflecting the state's ongoing leadership in renewable energy development

GWEC, 2024

19.35% LOWER INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICITY RATES THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE

EIA, 2024

How do we compare?

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